What's the difference between pyretic and pyrotic?
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.