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fever | American Dictionary

fever
noun
us/ˈfi·vər/

fevernoun (BODY TEMPERATURE)

[ C/U ]
a condition in which the body’s temperature is higher than usual, esp. as a sign of illness:
[ C ]The child has a rash and a high fever.

fevernoun (EXCITEMENT)

[ U ]
a state of great excitement or enthusiasm:
Texas was in the grip of football fever.

Examples of fever

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In addition, mitral plus either aortic or tricuspid lesions are usually secondary to rheumatic fever.
A fortnight later, the correspondent discovered that the man and child were recovering but that another child had died from fever.
These have included male infants younger than 1 year of age; prolonged or recurred fever; and elevated acute phase reactants.
Moreover, the method is easily available in the laboratory, less expensive and user-friendly for guiding physicians to the proper treatment of typhoid fever.
Susceptibility to rheumatic fever have been ascertained because of the poor quality of records in earlier years.
Thus, the detection of decreased susceptibility to ciprofloxacin in the laboratory is essential for treating typhoid fever.
In the second scenario, a patient is suffering from fevers, malaise, and a painful blistering rash after infection with smallpox.
These two categories often reach significant proportions, being several times the registered rates for acute rheumatic fever and chronic rheumatic heart disease.
The diagnosis of malaria was based on the presence of fever, and the detection of parasites in the maternal blood.
Three mice ; each received an intra-peritoneal injection of 0'5 c. c. of defibrinated relapsing fever blood in 1*5 c. c. saline.
Four mice each injected intra-peritoneally with 0'5 c. c. defibrinated relapsing fever blood in 0-5 c. c. saline.
Two mice ; intra-peritoneal injection of 0'5 c. c. defibrinated relapsing fever blood in 1*5 c. c. saline.
In suddenness, intensity, and periodicity, there is a close analogy between malarial fever and inebriate paroxysms, the same causes often originating both diseases.
In each case the logic is dreamlike, irrational and infantile, the fever dreams of a child who somehow feels the wrong size for the world.
Consumption of water outside the home was associated with typhoid fever in univariate analysis, but this variable was not in our multivariate model.
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