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English
Etymology
From post-classical Latin pyrexia, from Ancient Greek πυρεξία (purexía, “feverishness”), from πυρετός (puretós, “fever”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pyrexia (countable and uncountable, plural pyrexias or pyrexiae)
- (medicine) Fever.
1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 253:The least defined pyrexiae were the continued fevers, divided mainly into typhus, enteric (typhoid) and relapsing.
- (medicine) Trench fever.
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