What's the difference between febrile and feverish?

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.

Feverish


Definition:

  • (a.) Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish.
  • (a.) Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms.
  • (a.) Hot; sultry.
  • (a.) Disordered as by fever; excited; restless; as, the feverish condition of the commercial world.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) HuIFN-alpha 2 administration did not decrease the occurrence of illnesses associated with rhinorrhea, cough, or feverishness as compared to placebo, but the number of laboratory-documented respiratory viral infections was small (6 HuIFN-alpha 3 placebo).
  • (2) A man aged 54 years presented multiple symptoms (acroparesthesia, familial deafness, cardiomyopathy, diarrhea, adenopathy with infiltration of frothy macrophages, pancytopenia with a dense marrow, chronic meningitis, renal failure) associated with intermittent fever, with feverish attacks and a temperature of 40 degrees C, and with a severe biologic febrile syndrome.
  • (3) Respiratory and feverish clinical signs of the disease were observed in infected animals.
  • (4) There are plenty of programs available through the Android Market (and Google is, of course, encouraging armies of coders to feverishly build more), but there is still nowhere near the volume you can get for Apple's gizmo.
  • (5) The results of this study suspected that acute feverish disease and pneumonia of compromised host such as hemodialysis patients should be always thought of Legionnaires' infection.
  • (6) Special attention is paid to an analysis of the feverish syndrome.
  • (7) Sevilla attacked feverishly right at the end but were never really in it after the first goal went in.
  • (8) The mechanic said the smell was overwhelming and the child seemed "dehydrated, very, very dirty and feverish".
  • (9) He presented dysphagia and he was feverish, the overlying skin of the neck swelling was erythematous and warm.
  • (10) Among them was a patient who had been wheeled in the previous evening , feverish and vomiting, diagnosed with severe malaria.
  • (11) Click here to listen Not that they're really making the outrageously adventurous amalgam of Hollywood musicals and Miles Davis fusion that they feverishly imagine.
  • (12) Infected abortions with clinical manifestations of septicemia are sometimes classified as "high-fever abortions" or "feverish abortions" with "septic abortion" syndrome.
  • (13) The mother had a feverish illness at the 7th month of gestation, diagnosed by family doctor as influenza.
  • (14) Nowhere is the Sarah Brown craze more feverish than on the internet.
  • (15) He became confused, feverish, and developed florid retinal vasculitis with associated visual impairment.
  • (16) The first patient (27 years-old) remained feverish.
  • (17) It may be helpful in separating the child with simple convulsions due to fever from the child whose epileptic dysrhythmia first finds outward expression while he is feverish.
  • (18) I can’t criticise a doctor because I’m not a doctor.” With Guardiola at City and Mourinho at United , Manchester is about to become an even more feverish centre of football.
  • (19) The battle over how the UK should meet its goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050 is at its most feverish in the energy sector.
  • (20) She was placed in an isolation unit at Glasgow’s Gartnavel hospital after becoming feverish, before being transferred by an RAF Hercules plane to London.