Febrile - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: febrileFebrile
Pertaining to fever indicating fever or derived from it as febrile symptoms febrile action...
erysipelas
St Anthonys fire a febrile disease accompanied with a diffused red edematous inflammation of the skin which starting usually from a single point spreads gradually over its surface It is often accompanied by severe constitutional symptoms It is caused by a group A hemolytic streptococcus Streptococcus pyogenes is contagious and formerly often occured epidemically...
Infantile paralysis
An acute viral disease affecting almost exclusively infants and young adults characterized by inflammation of the anterior horns of the gray substance of the spinal cord It is attended with febrile symptoms motor paralysis and muscular atrophy often producing permanent deformities Called also acute anterior poliomyelitis poliomyelitis and polio It is caused by any one of three polioviruses and by the end of the twentieth century had been almost completely eradicated in developed countries by a widespread campaign of immunization...
Pyretic
Of or pertaining to fever febrile...
Pyrexia
The febrile condition...
Shoddy fever
A febrile disease characterized by dyspnoeliga and bronchitis caused by inhaling dust...
Smallpox
A contagious constitutional febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption variola The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles first flat subsequently umbilicated and then pustules and finally thick crusts which slough after a certain time often leaving a pit or scar...
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