What's the difference between febrile and fragile?

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.

Fragile


Definition:

  • (a.) Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The frequency of rare fragile sites was studied among 240 children in special schools for subnormal intelligence (IQ 52-85).
  • (2) A total of 13 ascertainments of folate sensitive autosomal fragile sites is observed, of which 10q23 fragility appears to be the most frequent.
  • (3) The fragile site at 10q25 was expressed in larger proportions of malignant than normal cells.
  • (4) The green fund contributions already announced (which include a $3bn pledge by the US and a $1.5bn pledge by Japan revealed during the G20 summit) “show very clearly that if we want the emerging countries and the more fragile countries to participate in this global growth, we have to ... support them,” Hollande said.
  • (5) Direct detection of the mutation enables the identification of fragile X negative normal transmitting males and fragile X negative carrier females.
  • (6) Tim Potter, managing director of support charity the Fragile X Society , adds that the challenges Tom faces in the film will give "hope and encouragement to many other families".
  • (7) A case of fragile-X syndrome (the Martin-Bell syndrome) in two male half-sibs from different marriages of their mother was described.
  • (8) Of the 188 males, 19 were found to have the fragile X syndrome, while the remaining 169 males had no recognizable cause of their mental retardation, including normal chromosomes.
  • (9) "The world economy remains in a deep recession and its financial system in a fragile condition," King said.
  • (10) A correlation between specific fragile sites and cancer breakpoints has been suggested raising the question of fragile site expression as a predisposing factor in the occurrence of cancer in some persons.
  • (11) Taking this into account, we derived equilibrium equations for the fragile X [fra(X)] genotype frequencies.
  • (12) An 18-year-old mentally retarded male with the Martin-Bell syndrome was fragile X positive.
  • (13) The problems Europe is having today could have a very real effect on our economy at a time when it's already fragile.
  • (14) The economics of the scene, she says, are "fragile".
  • (15) A significant relationship with heritable fragile sites was found in this study.
  • (16) It is associated with bony fragility, blue sclerae and abnormality of tooth dentin.
  • (17) The ankylosed spine may be fractured following relatively mild trauma attributable to loss of flexibility and increased fragility from osteoporosis.
  • (18) Apart from evidence of enhanced lysosomal and peroxisomal fragility, probably secondary to the intracellular oedema, the intracellular organelles investigated in this study were unaffected by the myopathic process.
  • (19) "The economy is still far too fragile to talk of a sustained recovery in the housing market, but the hope is that we are past the worst," he added.
  • (20) Of these new DNA markers, 5 lie in an interval defined as containing the fragile X region.