febricant

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English

Adjective

febricant

  1. (archaic) Causing fever.

Noun

febricant (plural febricants)

  1. (archaic) A patient who has a fever.
    • 1876, Edward Seguin, Medical Thermometry and Human Temperature, page 200:
      Gavaret mathematically demonstrated in 1839 the increase of body-heat when the febricant shivers with cold, and its precedence of some hours before the chill, by which signs the therapeutist is warned in time to administer the antidote.