(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.
Nervous
Definition:
(a.) possessing nerve; sinewy; strong; vigorous.
(a.) Possessing or manifesting vigor of mind; characterized by strength in sentiment or style; forcible; spirited; as, a nervous writer.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; as, nervous excitement; a nervous fever.
(a.) Having the nerves weak, diseased, or easily excited; subject to, or suffering from, undue excitement of the nerves; easily agitated or annoyed.
(a.) Sensitive; excitable; timid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
(2) The telencephalic proliferative response has been studied in adult newts after lesion on the central nervous system.
(3) In dogs, cibenzoline given i.v., had no effects on the slow response systems, probably because of sympathetic nervous system intervention since the class 4 effects of cibenzoline appeared after beta-adrenoceptor blockade.
(4) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.
(5) To examine the central nervous system regulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion, an animal model was developed that allowed cerebroventricular and intravenous injections as well as collection of duodenal perfusates in awake, freely moving rats.
(6) Postpartum management is directed toward decreasing vasospasm and central nervous system irritability and maintaining fluid and electrolyte balance.
(7) An experimental autoimmune model of nerve growth factor (NGF) deprivation has been used to assess the role of NGF in the development of various cell types in the nervous system.
(8) The most common reasons cited for relapse included craving, social situations, stress, and nervousness.
(9) Neurotensin (NT) is an endogenous brain tridecapeptide for which high affinity binding sites exist in the central nervous system.
(10) Substance P, a potent vasodilating peptide, seems to be released from trigeminal nerve endings in response to nervous stimulation and is involved in the transmission of painful stimuli within the periphery.
(11) Label was found widely distributed among all the organs except the nervous system and its rate of disappearance from the tissues paralleled its disappearance from the circulation.
(12) These results suggest that aluminum is able to gain access to the central nervous system under normal physiological conditions.
(13) The effects of five beta blockers on the central nervous system of healthy subjects was studied by computerized EEG analysis.
(14) In order to localize probable central nervous system sites for these actions, we have used 125I-labelled 1-d(CH2)5, 7-sarcosine-8-arginine vasopressin, a specific V1-receptor antagonist, and in vitro autoradiography to map brain vasopressin binding sites.
(15) The increased sympathetic nervous activity during exercise appears to be a toxic rather than a compensatory effect of alcohol.
(16) It is suggested that contractile responses to electrical stimulation in isolated sheep urethral smooth muscle are mediated by the sympathetic nervous system, mainly through release of noradrenaline stimulating postjunctional alpha 1-adrenoceptors.
(17) The response to LBNP in the pentobarbitone-anaesthetized rat appeared not to be influenced by the autonomic nervous system.
(18) When we trained on it, my heart sunk,” Coleman said after his side began their Euro 2016 campaign with a nervous victory.
(19) The poststenotic ischemia induced by sympathoexcitatory reflexes can also be prevented by blocking the sympathoexcitation at the central nervous level by clonidine.
(20) These results suggest that, to fully understand how multijoint movement sequences are controlled by the nervous system, sensory mechanisms must be considered in addition to central mechanisms.