fever

UK /ˈfiːvə/ · US /ˈfivɚ/

Etymology From Middle English fever, fevere, from Old English fefer, fefor (“fever”) and Old French fievre (“fever”), from Latin febris (“a fever”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”). Displaced native Old English hriþ (“fever”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Fiewer, German Fieber, Danish feber, Swedish feber.

Synonyms

high temperature, pyrexia, temperature, excitation, excitement, passion

Derived terms

136 terms

7-day fever, African swine fever virus, antifever, Arab fever, baby fever, Bieber fever, Botany Bay fever, bovine ephemeral fever, bovine infectious petechial fever, bovine malignant catarrhal fever, bovine petechial fever, brain fever, brain-fever, brain-fever bird, buck fever, Bulam fever, camp fever, cat scratch fever, cedar fever, Charcot intermittent fever, Charcot's intermittent fever, drain fever, enfever, familial Mediterranean fever, feverable, fever-bark, fever-blister, fever bush, fever-chart, fever clinic, fever coat, fever-cooling, fever dream, fevered, feveret, fever-fly, fever fog, fever-heat, fever-hectic, feverish, feverless, feverlike, fever-lurdan, fever-lurden, fever-lurgan, fever-lurk, feverly, fever-nut, feverous, fever pitch, fever-pitched, fever-powder, fever-ridden, feverroot, fever-sick, feversome, fever-sore, fever-swamp, fever swamp, fever tea, fever trap, fever-trap, fever-tree, fever-twig, fever-weakened, feverweed, fever-weed, fever-wood, feverwort, fevery, forest fever tree, gaol-fever, gate fever, go fever, gold fever, hay-fever, hayfever, hay fever, hay feverite, hog fever, hog-fever, hospital fever, hybrid fever, I have a fever, Indian fever, jail fever, Japanese fever, jungle fever, Karelian fever, Katayama's fever, ladies' fever, lazaret fever, Liszt fever, low-grade fever, lunar hay fever, maculated fever, malignant catarrhal fever, maple fever, Marburg fever, Marburg hemorrhagic fever, marsh fever, Miana fever, milk fever, miniature scarlet fever, monkey fever, Ohara's fever, pageant fever, pencil fever, Persian relapsing fever, Pfeiffer's glandular fever, pink-fever, prison fever, pseudofever, putrid fever, quintan fever, rash fever, Rhodesian redwater fever, Rift Valley fever, Rocky Mountain fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, rose fever, San Joaquin fever, San Joaquin Valley fever, severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome, ship-fever, ship fever, Spanish fever, stage fever, summit fever, sun-fever, swine fever, terai fever, thunder fever, tramp fever, white fever, white line fever

Related terms

25 terms

feed a cold, starve a fever, fever ague, fever and ague, fever blister, fever bush, fever grass, fever lent, fever of unknown origin, fever pitch, fever powder, fever ring, Fever River, fever root, fever sore, fever therapy, fever thermometer, fever treatment, fever tree, fever twig, Foshay-Mollaret cat-scratch fever syndrome, febrile, fervent, fervid, fervor, hyperthermia

Hyponyms

374 terms

abortus fever, absorption fever, acclimating fever, Aden fever, adynamic fever, aestivoautumnal fever, African Coast fever, algid pernicious fever, aphthous fever, ardent fever, arthropod-borne fever, artificial fever, aseptic fever, Asian fever, Assam fever, Astrakhan fever, ataxic fever, autumn fever, barrel fever, Bay fever, beaver fever, benign tertian fever, biduoterian fever, biliary fever, bilious fever, black fever, black fly fever, blackwater fever, blue fever, blue-tile fever, Boulogne fever, bouquet fever, boutonneuse fever, bovine epizootic fever, brain fever, brassfounder's fever, brass founder's fever, Brazilian purpuric fever, breakbone fever, buck fever, Bullis fever, bullous fever, Bunyamwera fever, Burdwan fever, Bwamba fever, cabin fever, cachectic fever, cachexial fever, California fever, California valley fever, camp fever, cane-cutter fever, cane-field fever, canefield fever, canicola fever, Cape Horn fever, Carrión's fever, Carter's fever, catarrhal fever, cat-bite fever, cat fever, catheter fever, cat-scratch fever, central fever, cerebro-spinal fever, cerebrospinal fever, Chagres fever, channel fever, Charcot's fever, chikungunya fever, childbed fever, childbirth fever, Choix fever, complicate fever, congestive fever, Congolian red fever, Congo red fever, continued fever, continuous fever, cotton fever, cotton-mill fever, country fever, Crimean fever, Cyprus fever, dance fever, dandy fever, date fever, deer fly fever, dehydration fever, dengue fever, desert fever, diary fever, digestive fever, diphasic milk fever, disfever, dock fever, double quotidian fever, drug fever, duck fever, Dum Dum fever, dumdum fever, Dumdum fever, Dutch type periodic fever, East Coast fever, Ebola fever, Ebola virus fever, elephantoid fever, Elokomin fluke fever, English fever, enteric fever, entericoid fever, entrance fever, ephemeral fever, epimastical fever, eruptive fever, essential fever, estivoautumnal fever, exanthematous fever, exsiccation fever, falciparum fever, familial Hibernian fever, familial periodic fever, famine fever, farrowing fever, fatigue fever, field fever, five-day fever, flood fever, fog fever, food fever, Fort Bragg fever, foundryman's fever, Gambia fever, Gambian fever, gaol fever, gastric fever, Gibraltar fever, glandular fever, gold fever, grain fever, green fever, haematuric bilious fever, haemoglobinuric fever, haemorrhagic fever, Hankow fever, harvest fever, Hasami fever, Haverhill fever, hay fever, hectic fever, hematuric bilious fever, hemoglobinuric fever, hemorrhagic fever, hempen fever, hepatic intermittent fever, herpetic fever, horse sickness fever, hospital fever, humidifier fever, Ilheus fever, inanition fever, induced fever, inflammatory fever, intermittent fever, inundation fever, island fever, Jaccoud's dissociated fever, jail fever, Japanese flood fever, Japanese river fever, jungle fever, jungle yellow fever, Junin fever, Katayama fever, Kedani fever, Kenya fever, Kew Gardens fever, Kinkiang fever, Korin fever, Lábrea fever, Lábrea's black fever, land fever, Lassa fever, laurel fever, Lazaret fever, lechuguilla fever, Lhasa fever, Lombard fever, Lone Star fever, low grade fever, lung fever, malarial catarrhal fever, malarial fever, malignant tertian fever, Malta fever, Manchurian fever, Marseilles fever, marsh fever, Mediterranean coast fever, Mediterranean erythematous fever, Mediterranean exanthematous fever, Mediterranean fever, Mediterranean spotted fever, meningotyphoid fever, metal fume fever, Meuse fever, Mexican fever, Mianeh fever, miliary fever, milk fever, mill fever, Monday fever, monoleptic fever, Mossman fever, mountain fever, mud fever, mumu fever, Murchison-Pel-Ebstein fever, Murchison-Sanderson fever, nanukayami fever, Neapolitan fever, nervous fever, nine mile fever, nodal fever, o'nyong-nyong fever, Oropouche fever, Oroya fever, paludal fever, Panama fever, papataci fever, papatasi fever, pappataci fever, papular fever, paratyphoid fever, parenteric fever, parrot fever, parturient fever, Pel-Ebstein fever, periodic fever, petechial fever, pharyngoconjunctival fever, phlebotomus fever, pinta fever, pituitous fever, polka fever, polyleptic fever, polymer fume fever, Pomona fever, Pontiac fever, Potomac fever, Potomac horse fever, pretibial fever, prison fever, prison fever typhus, protein fever, puerperal fever, puking fever, pukka fever, purple fever, putrid fever, Pym fever, Pym's fever, pyogenic fever, Q fever, query fever, rabbit fever, ratbite fever, rat-bite fever, rat fever, recrudescent typhus fever, recurrent fever, recurring fever, red fever, redwater fever, relapsing fever, remittent fever, rheumatic fever, Rhodesian fever, rice-field fever, Rock fever, rock fever, Roman fever, rose fever, Ross River fever, rotanny fever, run a fever, sakushu fever, Salinem fever, salt fever, sandfly fever, sand-fly fever, Santa Marta fever, São Paulo fever, scarlet fever, Schamberg fever, Schottmüller's fever, secondary fever, Sennetsu fever, septic fever, Shar Pei fever, shin bone fever, ship fever, shipping fever, shoddy fever, Sindbis fever, slime fever, slow fever, smelter's fever, snail fever, solar fever, Songo fever, spelter's fever, spirillary fever, spirillum fever, splenic fever, spotted fever, spottled fever, spring fever, steroid fever, sthenic fever, stockyards fever, stranger's fever, streptobacillary fever, summer fever, sun fever, suppurative fever, surgical fever, swamp fever, swine fever, symptomatic fever, syphilitic fever, Texas cattle fever, Texas fever, therapeutic fever, thermic fever, thirst fever, three-day fever, threshing fever, tick-bite fever, tick-borne fever, tick fever, Tobia fever, tomato fever, traumatic fever, trench fever, trypanosome fever, tsutsugamushi fever, typhoid fever, typhus fever, undifferentiated type fever, undulant fever, undulating fever, upgrade fever, urethral fever, urinary fever, urticarial fever, uveoparotid fever, valley fever, verruga fever, vivax fever, war fever, Wesselsbron fever, West African fever, West African hemorrhagic fever, West Nile fever, Whitmore's fever, winter fever, Wolhynia fever, womb fever, worm fever, wound fever, yellow fever, Zika fever, zinc fume fever