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.