(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.
Pyrexial
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Pyrexical
Example Sentences:
(1) To determine whether contamination of the catheter was the cause of pyrexis in patients receiving total parenteral nutrition through central venous catheters, semiquantitative culture of blood drawn through the line kept in place was performed.
(2) An abnormal postoperative pyrexial response, as defined in this text, is thus a poor sign of DVT.
(3) The appearance of a diastolic murmur in a pyrexial patient 15 days after trauma was suggestive of infectious endocarditis.
(4) Thus, the pyrexial group exhibited a particularly high ratio of positive reactions, and in fact exanthemic cases with concomitant symptoms (eosinophilia, pyrexia, hepatopathy, etc.)
(5) Seventy-one patients (47%) had 'definite' infection: 95% were pyrexial.
(6) Fever and headache were the commonest symptoms overall, but 12,5% of patients were never pyrexial.
(7) Fifteen patients were pyrexial at the time of their cytomegalovirus infection.
(8) The greater adverse effects of pyrexial temperatures on Clone 64d appears to explain the earlier reduction of upper respiratory tract infection seen in ferrets infected with this attenuated clone.
(9) Nine thousand four hundred thirty three pyrexial cases were screened for the evidence of Malaria and Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency among the rural tribal population of seven primary health centres in the malarial endemic areas of Udaipur District in Southern Rajasthan.
(10) Six neonates had bacteriological evidence of infection, one other was pyrexial and 29 had radiological evidence compatible with respiratory tract infection.
(11) The patient was pyrexial, oblivious of her surroundings, and without pain.
(12) An acute overdosage of 30 mg of pizotifen causing a pyrexial illness is reported.
(13) It also provides a rapid and reliable means of excluding a pelvic or perirenal abscess in the pyrexial patient.
(14) Throughout the study period a total of 90 pyrexial episodes were monitored in which organisms designated to be pathogens were isolated from blood cultures on 38 occasions.
(15) He complained of general fatigue and was pyrexial with generalised non-tender lymphadenopathy.
(16) A questionnaire was used to document the incidence of pyrexia, the age, sex, specific diagnosis and the subsequent management of pyrexial patients.
(17) Four patients were unassessable (tuberculous, viral, protocol violation, and non-infectious pyrexial episode).
(18) A patient presenting with a pyrexial illness and transiently deranged liver function tests is described.
(19) They once again point to the need of frequent checks of white cell count in the drug treatment of pyrexial diseases.
(20) When the illness starts with hepatic colic, a pyrexy with a painful right hypochondria and a painful liver-swelling, if the positive diagnosis, that can have been made from the cutaneous allergy test, the R.A.S.T.