pyrexia

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Pronunciation

• accent RP IPA: /pʌɪˈrɛk.si.ə/, /pɪˈrɛk.si.ə/
• accent GA IPA: /paɪˈrɛk.si.ə/

Noun

pyrexia

1. (medicine) Fever. [from 18th c.]
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 253:

     The least defined pyrexiae were the continued fevers, divided mainly into typhus, enteric (typhoid) and relapsing.

2. (medicine) Trench fever.

Related terms

• hyperpyrexia
• hypopyrexia

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