What's the difference between feverish and pyrexial?
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.
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.