What's the difference between feverish and floccillation?

Feverish


Definition:

  • (a.) Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish.
  • (a.) Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms.
  • (a.) Hot; sultry.
  • (a.) Disordered as by fever; excited; restless; as, the feverish condition of the commercial world.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) HuIFN-alpha 2 administration did not decrease the occurrence of illnesses associated with rhinorrhea, cough, or feverishness as compared to placebo, but the number of laboratory-documented respiratory viral infections was small (6 HuIFN-alpha 3 placebo).
  • (2) A man aged 54 years presented multiple symptoms (acroparesthesia, familial deafness, cardiomyopathy, diarrhea, adenopathy with infiltration of frothy macrophages, pancytopenia with a dense marrow, chronic meningitis, renal failure) associated with intermittent fever, with feverish attacks and a temperature of 40 degrees C, and with a severe biologic febrile syndrome.
  • (3) Respiratory and feverish clinical signs of the disease were observed in infected animals.
  • (4) There are plenty of programs available through the Android Market (and Google is, of course, encouraging armies of coders to feverishly build more), but there is still nowhere near the volume you can get for Apple's gizmo.
  • (5) The results of this study suspected that acute feverish disease and pneumonia of compromised host such as hemodialysis patients should be always thought of Legionnaires' infection.
  • (6) Special attention is paid to an analysis of the feverish syndrome.
  • (7) Sevilla attacked feverishly right at the end but were never really in it after the first goal went in.
  • (8) The mechanic said the smell was overwhelming and the child seemed "dehydrated, very, very dirty and feverish".
  • (9) He presented dysphagia and he was feverish, the overlying skin of the neck swelling was erythematous and warm.
  • (10) Among them was a patient who had been wheeled in the previous evening , feverish and vomiting, diagnosed with severe malaria.
  • (11) Click here to listen Not that they're really making the outrageously adventurous amalgam of Hollywood musicals and Miles Davis fusion that they feverishly imagine.
  • (12) Infected abortions with clinical manifestations of septicemia are sometimes classified as "high-fever abortions" or "feverish abortions" with "septic abortion" syndrome.
  • (13) The mother had a feverish illness at the 7th month of gestation, diagnosed by family doctor as influenza.
  • (14) Nowhere is the Sarah Brown craze more feverish than on the internet.
  • (15) He became confused, feverish, and developed florid retinal vasculitis with associated visual impairment.
  • (16) The first patient (27 years-old) remained feverish.
  • (17) It may be helpful in separating the child with simple convulsions due to fever from the child whose epileptic dysrhythmia first finds outward expression while he is feverish.
  • (18) I can’t criticise a doctor because I’m not a doctor.” With Guardiola at City and Mourinho at United , Manchester is about to become an even more feverish centre of football.
  • (19) The battle over how the UK should meet its goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050 is at its most feverish in the energy sector.
  • (20) She was placed in an isolation unit at Glasgow’s Gartnavel hospital after becoming feverish, before being transferred by an RAF Hercules plane to London.

Floccillation


Definition:

  • (n.) A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Picking at the bedclothes and at imaginary objects (carphology and floccillation) are characteristic, as is muscular twitching (subsultus tendinum).

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