(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.
Rash
Definition:
(v. t.) To pull off or pluck violently.
(v. t.) To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice.
(n.) A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.
(n.) An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.
(superl.) Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander.
(superl.) Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.
(superl.) So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.
(v. t.) To prepare with haste.
Example Sentences:
(1) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
(2) Two young patients presented with generalised lymphadenopathy, otorrhoea, otitis, and rash.
(3) --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.
(4) The cause of death was thought to be postoperative Graft Versus Host Disease with skin rash and pancytopenia.
(5) Adverse reactions associated with ticlopidine included neutropenia (severe in one patient) with no clinical complications, diarrhea, or rash.
(6) The presence of an erythematous skin rash and hemorrhagic complications in acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) suggest that the vasculature may be involved in the immunopathologic process.
(7) Hypersensitivity reactions, most commonly skin rashes or pruritus, affect about 1% of patients.
(8) The adverse effects were negligible--one patient had light urticarial rash and pruritus.
(9) In vitro invasion and in vivo metastasis assays were performed with a panel of MCF-7 cells transfected with isogenic constructs of mutated rasH genes.
(10) We describe a man who presented with Reiter's syndrome and a new prominent malar rash.
(11) A 71-year-old female showed a rash over the S2-4 dermatomes on the right side.
(12) Somebody rashly asked if he listened to the recently reprieved 6 Music – no – or even Radio 1, which he only caught, he said, when turning the dial between Radios 3 and 4.
(13) These indicators included temperature elevation, inability to be consoled, level of alertness, nuchal rigidity, bulging fontanel, decreased appetite, rash, referral, and febrile seizures.
(14) Extracardiac adverse effects of quinidine include potentially intolerable gastrointestinal effects and hypersensitivity reactions such as fever, rash, blood dyscrasias and hepatitis.
(15) The protective effects of FK565 against systemic infections with herpes simplex virus (HSV) and murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV), respiratory tract infection with influenza virus and zosteriform rash with HSV investigated in mice.
(16) These included petechial rash, hypertrichosis, acute renal failure, fluid retention and cardiac failure.
(17) These results suggest a frequent infection with HHV-6 only a few weeks after BMT and a close association between the infection with the virus and the development of skin rashes.
(18) Of these five, one came from a 'normal' control who had a positive anti-nuclear antibody (ANA), facial rash and diabetes, two were from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and two were from patients with mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD).
(19) The drug was withdrawn in 6 patients--lack of response in one, thrombocytopenia in one, urticaria in one, rash in one, and granulocytopenia in 2.
(20) Supplementation with zinc sulfate 220 mg per day via nasogastric tube resulted in disappearance of the rash with return of serum zinc to normal levels.