pyrexia

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Not a trace of wind in the humid pyrexia of mid-afternoon.

From The Guardian

During the pyrexia the face is flushed and the eyes injected, but the redness is more vivid and the countenance more animated than in either typhoid or yellow fever.

From Project Gutenberg

The superficial appearance of pyrexia is sometimes given by a local vaso-motor paralysis, which makes the neuralgic part, after a long bout of pain, hot and red; but of general pyrexia there is nothing.

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It was accompanied by pyrexia, gastro-enteritis, deep-seated pains in limbs and body, and burning and pricking of the skin.

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Caroline DeS. had short periods of marked pyrexia in the first and seventh months of her long psychosis.

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