(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.
Mononucleosis
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors report the clinical case of an 18-year-old patient who presented with a symptomatic mass in the left upper quadrant 6 months after having infectious mononucleosis.
(2) Previous studies in Ghana had shown that primary infections with Epstein-Barr virus in infants under the age of two years remain silent and evoke antibody responses different from those seen in infectious mononucleosis.
(3) EBV-specificity of the polypeptide was demonstrated by the presence of antibodies against this polypeptide in antisera from a population of EBV-seropositive donors, but not from seronegative donors, by the presence of the polypeptide itself in EBV-carrying but not in EBV-negative cell lines and by the appearance of antibodies against this polypeptide during the course of infectious mononucleosis (IM).
(4) We investigated the number of DNA-synthesizing T lymphocytes in the blood of patients with Hodgkin's disease, with infectious mononucleosis and in normal controls.
(5) Serological investigations were carried out on 147 patients with Paul-Bunnell positive infectious mononucleosis (IM) from the general population.
(6) Forty-eight children with the symptoms of infectious mononucleosis were examined.
(7) This event is seldom; only 38 cases of true spontaneous rupture of the spleen in infectious mononucleosis could be found when the literature was reviewed.
(8) However, patients with EBV-associated disorders and particularly those with EBV-induced infectious mononucleosis characteristically have nonspecific Ts cells in their peripheral circulation.
(9) When cases were divided by histology, strong and specific associations of earlier puberty (OR = 2.3) and mothers' breast cancer (OR = 4.4) with nonseminomatous cancer, and of reported mononucleosis (OR = 0.3) with seminomatous cancer, were found.
(10) Subsequent analysis of serum from the patients with infectious mononucleosis revealed a serum factor that completely abrogated antigen-specific inhibition of migration by human leukocytes as well as lymphocyte blastogenesis.
(11) Own experiences are reported on the basis of clinical examples in patients affected with malign lymphoma, infectious mononucleosis and polymyositis.
(12) The diagnosis of EBV-IM or a heterophil-negative mononucleosis-like syndrome is best approached by combining morphologic and serologic data.
(13) Each animal developed the heterophile antibodies of infectious mononucleosis and EBV-specific antibodies.
(14) The independent effects of a history of mononucleosis or hepatitis suggest that viral agents may be cofactors in the production of immune dysfunction.
(15) Among cases previously reported, most describe an acute illness resembling infectious mononucleosis.
(16) Rheumatoid factors (RF) occur during the course of various infections such as leprosy, infective endocarditis, tuberculosis, trypanosomiasis, visceral larva migrans, infectious mononucleosis, influenza A, hepatitis A or cytomegalovirus.
(17) Human-primate hybrid cell lines were established by fusion of African green monkey kidney cells (VERO) with lymphoblastoid cells from patients with infectious mononucleosis (IM)(IMK101) and from Burkitt's lymphoma culture (HR1K).
(18) These latter patients belonged to three clinical categories: patients with connective tissue disease (CTD), infectious mononucleosis or biological false positive serology.
(19) The clinical manifestations of CMV infection in transplant recipients range from asymptomatic or mild mononucleosis syndromes to severe infection.
(20) Granulomatous inflammation of the spleen has not previously been recorded in infectious mononucleosis.