What's the difference between apyrexia and pyrexia?

Apyrexia


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Apyrexy

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A spurt of corticosteroids was necessary to obtain apyrexia for the patients who had presented multiple auto-immune disorders and a resistance to the classical therapy.
  • (2) Precocity of treatment has no influence on the time of apyrexia is appearing.
  • (3) After several sequestrectomies and five hyperbaric sessions, apyrexia was attained at the end of the third month, the femur having been stabilised with an external fixator.
  • (4) Apyrexia was obtained in 24 patients, 11 of whom had a rise of temperature with negative bacteriology about 10 days later.
  • (5) Response was assessed on the basis of clinical criteria only, including onset of apyrexia in particular.
  • (6) There were 64 apyrexia with piperacillin-pefloxacin (75%) and further 14 were resolved by the addition of vancomycin (total success = 92%); three early changes because of clinical deterioration (two episodes) or germ resistance (one episode); three protocol violations, and one apyrexia by addition of amphotericin.
  • (7) However, in situ bypassing (9) is possible provided apyrexia and negative blood cultures have been obtained by preoperative antibiotherapy.
  • (8) Clinical improvement and apyrexia were achieved in an average of 5 days.
  • (9) Severe Tick born fever (neurologic or polyvisceral forms, n: 5) and Q fever with long term hyperthermia, n: 4 cas always cured without complications but the time necessary to obtain apyrexia was often longer (6 cases).
  • (10) Prognostic factor common to both groups of patients were: shock, coma, delayed apyrexia and the isolation of more than one infecting organism on blood culture.
  • (11) Valve replacement and antibiotic therapy led to clinical improvement and constant apyrexia with a 12 month follow-up.
  • (12) Antibiotic treatment was successful in 14 patients, apyrexia being reached within 2nd to 13th day of treatment (median: 4th day) with negative microbiologic and radiologic assessment; only in the patient with chronic suppurative malleolar ulcer, notwithstanding apyrexia, microbiologic culture indicated the persistence of a pre-treatment pathogen (P. mirabilis).
  • (13) In group C apyrexia was obtained within 48 hours or less in 54.4% of the patients versus 35.7% only in Group J (p less than 0.001) and 41.5% in group V (p less than 0.02).
  • (14) Apyrexia and resolution of digestive and neurological symptoms were obtained in a significantly shorter time with pefloxacin than with cotrimoxazole.
  • (15) Twenty eight patients recovered: apyrexia was obtained in 3.5 days.
  • (16) Apyrexia was obtained in less than 48 hours in 36 patients.
  • (17) Apyrexia was observed within an average of 3 days (1 to 8 days).
  • (18) Apyrexia was observed before day 4 in 89% of the cases; only one case of fever at day 7.
  • (19) Apyrexia and return to normal of chest radiography were obtained with oral fluconazole.
  • (20) The time until the return of apyrexia and the clinical cure rate, as well as duration of treatment, were identical in both groups.

Pyrexia


Definition:

  • (n.) The febrile condition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Host responses and neuroendocrinological changes during pyrexia in childhood were studied.
  • (2) These findings suggest that oral or axillary temperature measurements are inadequate screening tests for pyrexia in the elderly.
  • (3) An outbreak of the pruritus, pyrexia, haemorrhagic syndrome affected eight of a herd of 175 cows which was divided into two groups of 115 and 60 according to yield.
  • (4) A 59-year-old woman hospitalised because of dyspnea and a heart murmur in a context of pyrexia was found to have evidence of obstruction of the pulmonary arterial system, clearly defined by ultrasonography, catheterisation and angiography and Imatron scan.
  • (5) Wound infection, wound haematoma and one unexplained pyrexia were the only complications seen.
  • (6) When the colostrum-deprived newborn calves immunized with the rs-52 strain were challenged with the virulent NMK7 strain of BRS virus, they exhibited no pyrexia or other abnormal clinical signs at all.
  • (7) A 22-year-old man presented with multiple raised erythematous skin lesions, pyrexia and epistaxis.
  • (8) An intermittent pyrexia was also seen without infective etiology.
  • (9) The indirect hemagglutination test is of diagnostic value in cases with involvement of the internal organs or pyrexia of unknown origin.
  • (10) They all developed high temperatures, pyrexia, diarrhoea, vomitting or itching and some had convulsions.
  • (11) Disseminated aspergillosis attributable to Aspergillus deflectus was diagnosed in a Springer Spaniel with lethargy, lameness, anorexia, weight loss, pyrexia, lymphadenopathy, hematuria, and urinary incontinence.
  • (12) Toxic reactions included pyrexia, headache, and malaise, which were mild to moderate.
  • (13) The morbidity including postoperative pyrexia revealed no difference between drained and undrained patients.
  • (14) It revealed that the adverse reactions were nausea, vomiting, abdominal colic, diarrhea, dizziness, headache and pyrexia.
  • (15) Two children presented with pyrexia, macular erythroderma, vomiting, hypotension and rapid deterioration of consciousness.
  • (16) Although the mechanism is not yet understood, it appears to be a coincidence of delayed hypersensitivity of the tuberculin type and a less-delayed phenomenon of excessive local edema associated with local lymphadenopathy and short-lasting symptoms of malaise and pyrexia.
  • (17) All the infected heifers developed clinical trypanosomiasis manifested by massive parasitaemia, fluctuating pyrexia, anaemia, dull hair coat, emaciation, jugular pulse and enlarged superficial lymph nodes.
  • (18) A positive reaction was noted in 92 of 481 ophthalmological cases; two of 17 lymphadenopathy cases; none in 36 cerebral palsy cases and four of 40 miscellaneous cases comprising pyrexia of unknown aetiology, recurrent abortions etc.
  • (19) The only manifestation of infection of the baby's mother was a slight pyrexia three days before delivery which subsided quickly after treatment with ampicillin.
  • (20) Both viruses caused persistent pyrexia and leukopenia, the NSW strain 4 to 5 days and the virulent strain 3 days, after inoculation.

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