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Pyrexial

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py·rex·i·a  (p-rks-)
n.
Fever.

[New Latin, from Greek purexis, from puressein, to have a fever, from puretos, fever; see pyretic.]

py·rexi·al, py·rexic adj.


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On admission, he was pyrexial and exhibited associated cervical lymphadenopathy.
Despite treatment with appropriate antibiotics he remained pyrexial and 17 days after the admission to the hospital his general condition worsened.
One of these patients had become confused and pyrexial 24 hours postoperatively, and a perforation of her esophagus was assumed.
 
 
 
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