algid
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In the comatose form the surface is preternaturally warm, of a muddy, semi-jaundiced hue, and the pulse and temperature both indicate the feverish rather than the algid state.
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Harry felt an algid chill creep over him.
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For, of all the miracles!—I could not doubt—an actual aroma like peach-blossom was in the algid air about me!
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The algid or congestive form occurs more frequently than either of the others.
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If the attack has been very severe, and particularly if the algid stage has been prolonged, fever of a low type is apt to occur, and indeed may terminate fatally.
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