(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.
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.