What's the difference between defervescence and fever?
Defervescence
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Defervescency
Example Sentences:
(1) However, high-dose oral ampicillin therapy had no advantage over that with lower doses or over chloramphenicol as judged by the rate of defervescence after the start of treatment, the rate of clinical relapse and the frequency of excretion of Salmonella typhi during convalescence.
(2) After quinine therapy defervescence occurred and blood smears were continuously free of malaria parasites.
(3) Among infants with bacteremia but without meningitis, differences from nonbacteremic children were detected in clinical appearance prior to fever reduction but not following defervescence.
(4) At defervescence, core temperature fell to a level near that of the pre-lesioning base line.3.
(5) Fourteen patients (58%) responded to percutaneous cholecystostomy, as evidenced by a decrease in WBC count, defervescence, and the ability to be weaned off vasopressors.
(6) Two patients with H. influenzae cellulitis and bacteraemia defervesced within 24 hours and their blood cultures became negative promptly.
(7) Prompt defervescence was attributed to reduction of bacterial flora and institution of appropriate antibiotic treatment based on culture of the aspirate and sensitivity studies of organisms.
(8) Analysis of febrile responses indicated that amantadine-treated patients had significantly more rapid defervescence.
(9) At least 90% of the patients in each group had subjective improvement and defervescence within 2 days, and all patients followed for at least 2 weeks achieved complete clinical and bacteriologic cure.
(10) As compared to the randomized control group of patients treated with antibiotics alone, patient survival was only slightly improved (from 25% to 42%; NS); however, the defervescence time was significantly shorter (10 vs. 16 days), and a greater percentage of microbiologically positive cultures became negative (40% vs. 8%; p less than .01).
(11) Four patients were febrile for 36 h after initial defervescence.
(12) This temperature-relationship persisted under conditions with different states of cutaneous vasoconstriction and thermal panting as observed in fever and during defervescence.
(13) No difference was discerned between these two agents in terms of time required for defervescence, roentgenographic clearing, and ultimate outcome.
(14) In the treatment of Gram-positive bacteraemia, first-line administration of teicoplanin was found to be associated with early defervescence and with a significantly higher rate of success without modification of treatment (P less than 0.01).
(15) In 45 patients in whom typhoid fever was confirmed by culture of a blood sample, cefotaxime (1 gm BID) was administered intravenously for four days; if defervescence did not occur by day 5, the dosage was increased to 2 gm BID until defervescence, when it was reduced to 1 gm BID until discharge.
(16) Defervescence was a little more rapid with chloramphenicol (six to seven days) than with ceftriaxone (seven to ten days) even though blood, urine and stool cultures were all negative from the third or fourth day of treatment.
(17) Therapy with intravenous gamma-globulin (IVGG) results in rapid defervescence, disappearance of signs and symptoms of inflammation and prevention of coronary artery aneurysms.
(18) The same dose of salicylate given 4 h after the start of an EP infusion resulted in rapid and progressive defervescence.
(19) Defervescence of fever was rapid (median: 4 days) and the duration of hospitalisation was short (median: 8 days).
(20) However, defervescence of fever following commencement of antibiotic therapy occurs equally rapidly in these three groups.
Fever
Definition:
(n.) A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite. Many diseases, of which fever is the most prominent symptom, are denominated fevers; as, typhoid fever; yellow fever.
(n.) Excessive excitement of the passions in consequence of strong emotion; a condition of great excitement; as, this quarrel has set my blood in a fever.
(v. t.) To put into a fever; to affect with fever; as, a fevered lip.
Example Sentences:
(1) The simultaneous administration of the yellow fever vaccine did not influence the titre of agglutinins induced by the classic cholera vaccine.
(2) It has also been reported in a severe form with fever and systemic symptoms both in children and adults.
(3) This paper analyzes the nucleotide sequences of three viruses: Kunjin, west Nile, and yellow fever.
(4) Twelve strains of the Crimean hemorrhagic fever (CHF)-Congo group of viruses the Bunyaviridae family were investigated with respect to sensitivity to lipid solvents and temperature, pathogenicity for animals, interactions with cell cultures and antigenic relationships.
(5) A 45-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with complaints of fever and lumbago.
(6) Although the incidence of acute rheumatic fever has declined in the last decades, a few outbreaks have recently been reported.
(7) The clinical features were fever, anemia, and pulmonary embolism.
(8) No cases of rheumatic fever and no acute nephritis appeared in spite of the vigorous immune response to both cellular and extracellular antigens of group A streptococci documented in 50% to 80% of patients, suggesting that strain variation may be a feature of rheumatogenicity as well as nephritogenicity of group A streptococcal pharyngitis.
(9) imbalance between production and elimination of heat, or to fever, i.e.
(10) Early diagnosis (fever, increase of leucocytes and toxic signs in differential blood count, thrombocythemia, decrease of anorganic phosphate), prophylaxis, and treatment are discussed.
(11) All of them had fever, jaundice, abdominal pain, leucocytosis and deranged liver function while 26.6% were in shock, 13.3% in coma and 40% in azotaemia.
(12) On land, the pits' stagnant pools of water become breeding grounds for dengue fever and malaria.
(13) Most cases of typhoid fever in the United States occur in international travelers, with the greatest risk associated with travel to Peru, India, Pakistan, and Chile.
(14) Thirty-six per cent of 972 patients developed fever (temperature exceeding 38 degrees C).
(15) Fever was also associated with a higher incidence of lymphopenia, hyponatraemia, hypoalbuminaemia and many acid-fast bacilli on sputum smear.
(16) --The frequency of common clinical manifestations (eg, headache, fever, and rash) and laboratory findings (eg, leukocyte and platelet counts and serum chemistry abnormalities) of patients with infectious diseases was tabulated.
(17) We describe a patient with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who developed hypersensitivity after 3 weeks of therapy with azathioprine with fever, jaundice and renal insufficiency.
(18) Pichinde virus inoculation into strain 13 guinea pigs is a model with features reputed to be similar to hemorrhagic fever in humans.
(19) A case of post streptococcal acute glomerulonephritis co-existing with acute rheumatic fever is reported.
(20) The immunofluorescent method is rapid and simple, and is recommended for routine detection of serum antibody in dengue hemorrhagic fever.