What's the difference between afebrile and apyretic?

Afebrile


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Compared with cultures from afebrile women, organisms were recovered from 51 (93%) of 55 febrile postpartum women by using the triple-lumen transcervical culture method (P less than .001).
  • (2) In patients three years of age or less, M. pneumoniae was isolated at the same rate from febrile and afebrile cases and from wheezy and non-wheezy cases.
  • (3) After prophylactic antibiotic administration for 3 weeks, he was afebrile for 2 weeks without any medication.
  • (4) Central injections of 40 and 80 ng of [Nle4,D-Phe7]-alpha-MSH caused hypothermia in afebrile rabbits, whereas 20 and 10 ng, which had no effect on afebrile body temperature, caused greater than 40% reduction in leukocytic pyrogen-induced fever.
  • (5) Compared with afebrile patients, PGE-2 levels were significantly higher after febrile convulsions.
  • (6) Clinical response was rapid and all patients were asymptomatic and afebrile within two to seven days of starting therapy.
  • (7) All were treated with clindamycin and tobramycin until afebrility and clinical signs of disease were absent.
  • (8) Electrical stimulation of the BST in the absence of PGE1 did not alter body temperature in the afebrile rat.
  • (9) We examined the possibility that the common cold or afebrile upper respiratory tract infection might interfere with successful immunization in children who receive standard measles-mumps-rubella vaccine.
  • (10) All patients described a history of fever; however, 25% were afebrile at the initial hospital visit.
  • (11) Vaccination was authorized on discharge of each patient, including patients with infections who had been afebrile for 24 hours.
  • (12) Among these 118 children we found 76 with afebrile convulsions.
  • (13) A collective of 54 patients with uncomplicated delivery and afebrile, inconspicuous puerperium was vaginosonographically examined on the 1st day postpartum and also 6 weeks post partum.
  • (14) Administration of AVP into a lateral cerebral ventricle (ICV) was ineffective in reducing an endotoxin-induced fever and did not alter body temperature in the afebrile rabbit.
  • (15) In a few instances U. urealyticum has been isolated from the blood of afebrile postpartum women.
  • (16) Mean plasma values for the patients while they were febrile did not differ from the mean values when they were afebrile.
  • (17) Generally the prognosis is more unfavourable if epilepsy starts in the first year of life with afebrile and febrile generalized tonic-clonic or clonic seizures, if children are suffering from longlasting states of seizures and if development is disturbed before beginning of epilepsy.
  • (18) Three of the 32 children who had prolonged febrile convulsions developed afebrile complex partial seizures.
  • (19) All 3 of the children who subsequently had afebrile seizures (2 prospective) were neurologically abnormal (P = .006 overall, P = .035 for prospective only).
  • (20) There were no false-positive fever assessments in afebrile infants.

Apyretic


Definition:

  • (a.) Without fever; -- applied to days when there is an intermission of fever.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In these 39 patients, 30 became apyretic with ceftazidime and netilmicin and 6 after vancomycin.
  • (2) In study n. 2 73 per cent of the patients were apyretic after the first combination and 85 per cent after vancomycin was introduced.
  • (3) On day 10 after induction therapy the patient, previously apyretic and asymptomatic, had an episode of acute dyspnea with fever (39 degrees C).

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