What's the difference between fever and pyretic?

Fever


Definition:

  • (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.

Pyretic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to fever; febrile.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition to these anti-inflammatory activities, auranofin had almost equal anti-analgesic and anti-pyretic activity to that of indomethacin.
  • (2) However, when NaASA was administered after pyrogen, it uniformly antagonized the pyretic effect causing a return of the discharge to the control rate.
  • (3) A diminished pyretic reaction during aseptic inflammation in rabbits with diabetes was apparently associated with the reduced capacity of leukocytes of the inflammatory focus to release pyrogens, determining the fever.
  • (4) Controversy exists regarding (a) whether rats become tolerant, or sensitized, to morphine-induced hyperthermia and (b) the directionality of the conditioned pyretic effects of morphine.
  • (5) Pyretic activity was detected both in the fractions with LAF activity and in those with cytotoxic activity for L-929 cells.
  • (6) A pyretic response was observed in intravenous and intramammary treatment groups after endotoxin treatment.
  • (7) The overall pyretic response is more dramatic in female rats than in male rats.
  • (8) These results suggest that anti-inflammatory, analgesic and anti-pyretic activities of TA are generally a little weaker than those of ibuprofen, and the mode of action of TA is similar to that of a typical acidic non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug such as ibuprofen, indomethacin or phenylbutazone.
  • (9) Etoclofene, the ethoxy methyl ester of N-(2,6-dichloro-m-tolyl)anthranilic acid, showed potent anti-inflammatory, anti-pyretic and peripheral analgesic activity in several experimental models of inflammation.
  • (10) The analgesic, anti-pyretic and anti-inflammatory effects of FI-302, N-(3-piperidinopropyl)-4-methyl-6-trifluoromethyl-furo [3,2-b]indole-2-carboxamide, a newly synthesized tricyclic compound, were investigated in comparison with those of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).
  • (11) An evaluation of the in situ bacteriologic status of a total parenteral nutrition (TPN) catheter, when the patient is pyretic but the cause of infection is not obvious, permits continued use of the catheter if the result is negative, as opposed to removal of the suspected catheter.
  • (12) The compounds showed weaker antipyretic activity than acetylsalicylic acid in pyretic animals.
  • (13) In 22 patients with liver cirrhosis, 59.19pc had subnormal temperatures and 9.1pc were pyretic.
  • (14) Asymptomatic typhus infection was regularly modelled in guinea pigs with increased resistance to Rickettsia prowazeki; this infection was characterized by the presence of immunological shifts in the blood and immunity to reinfection, persistenc of rickettsia in the organs of animals in the absence of pyretic reaction and periorchites.
  • (15) Diabetic rabbits displayed a statistically significant reduction of the pyretic index in comparison with control.
  • (16) D-penicillamine did not show any anti-inflammatory, anti-analgesic or anti-pyretic activity.
  • (17) The compound reduced the pyretic, metabolic and vasoconstricting activity of pyrogen.
  • (18) Anti-inflammatory, analgesic and anti-pyretic activities of three new 5-(Indan-1'-yl)tetrazoles and anti-inflammatory activity of corresponding carboxamides were compared to those of standard drugs, phenylbutazone and aspirin.
  • (19) A study was made of the development of pyretic reaction to the administration of a bacterial lipopolysaccharide (pyrogenal) after preliminary treatment of rabbits with actinomycin D and cortisone.
  • (20) Separate investigations of treatment given to 394 children before presentation at hospital with severe and mild malaria was consistent with the reports in the community of high usage of shop-bought anti-malarials and anti-pyretics.

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