pyrexia
nounUK /pʌɪˈrɛk.si.ə/ · US /paɪˈrɛk.si.ə/
Etymology From post-classical Latin pyrexia, from Ancient Greek πυρεξία (purexía, “feverishness”), from πυρετός (puretós, “fever”).
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Medicine, Sciences Fever.
- The least defined pyrexiae were the continued fevers, divided mainly into typhus, enteric (typhoid) and relapsing.1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 253:
2
Medicine, Sciences Trench fever.
- Derived terms
- antipyrexial, apyrexia, pyrexic, pyrexial
- Related terms
- hyperpyrexia, hypopyrexia