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pyrexia
noun as in fever
noun as in temperature
Strong matches
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Not a trace of wind in the humid pyrexia of mid-afternoon.
According to Parkes,27 the changes in the urine are those usual in ordinary pyrexia.
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.
It was accompanied by pyrexia, gastro-enteritis, deep-seated pains in limbs and body, and burning and pricking of the skin.
Caroline DeS. had short periods of marked pyrexia in the first and seventh months of her long psychosis.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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