What's the difference between afebrile and febrile?

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.

Febrile


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to fever; indicating fever, or derived from it; as, febrile symptoms; febrile action.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Febrile reactions were not distributed randomly among the patients; those with respiratory tract infection experienced more febrile reactions during periods with infection than during periods without.
  • (2) 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).
  • (3) Analysis of the literature data on the use of various therapeutic approaches to the treatment of febrile schizophrenia has shown that so far psychiatry does not possess such methods of treatment which could allow the complete prevention of lethal outcomes in this disease.
  • (4) 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.
  • (5) Salmonella typhi O and H antibody titres were determined by the Standard Agglutination Test (SAT) in 85 patients with bacteriologically proven typhoid, 102 patients with non-typhoidal febrile illnesses (control group 1), and 170 healthy subjects (control group 2).
  • (6) The intake of most nutrients was significantly depressed by approximately 10% during febrile illnesses.
  • (7) The exact timing of the introduction of the glycopeptide antibiotics teicoplanin and vancomycin in the management of the febrile neutropenic patient continues to be controversial.
  • (8) The risk of epilepsy after febrile convulsions is much less than reported in many hospital studies, and if febrile convulsions cause brain damage that leads to later epilepsy this is a rare occurrence.
  • (9) Obama said that amid the febrile focus on the shooter’s terrorist radicalization, the fact should not be forgotten that he had targeted a gay nightclub.
  • (10) Evidence suggests that this lesion is probably a common cause of chronic epilepsy in adults and that often it is probably the result of a severe febrile convulsion in infancy.
  • (11) Compared with afebrile patients, PGE-2 levels were significantly higher after febrile convulsions.
  • (12) Indomethacin pretreatment prevented the first part of the febrile response and only a slight temperature rise occurred after a long latency.
  • (13) Febrile macaques that survived had leukocytosis, with concomitant neutrophilia.
  • (14) However, this volume of blood is an unrealistic amount to take from the frequently febrile pediatric patient.
  • (15) Increasing age and protein deprivation did not have an additive effect in decreasing the febrile response to IL-1 or endotoxin.
  • (16) Apart from the latter pig no clinical signs of illness were detected except for febrile reactions which reflected the prevalence of the thoracic lesions in the various groups.
  • (17) These indicators included temperature elevation, inability to be consoled, level of alertness, nuchal rigidity, bulging fontanel, decreased appetite, rash, referral, and febrile seizures.
  • (18) A total of 2199 children with febrile seizures were reviewed, 830 from the 1967-1968 period and 1369 from the 1972-1973 period.
  • (19) Sixteen women (7.5%) developed febrile morbidity only, 10 (4.7%) developed major pelvic infection requiring parenteral antimicrobial therapy, and neither clinical nor laboratory adverse reactions of significance were observed.
  • (20) Protein malnutrition leads to diminished pyrogenicity of macrophage culture supernatants and may be at least partly responsible for the decreased febrile response seen in the malnourished animals.

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