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Defervescency vs Defervescence - What's the difference?

defervescency | defervescence |

As nouns the difference between defervescency and defervescence

is that defervescency is alternative form of defervescence while defervescence is the departure or subsiding of a fever.

defervescency

English

Noun

  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • A defervescency in holy actions.

    defervescence

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The departure or subsiding of a fever.
  • *2003 , Cartmell et al., J Physiol. 2003;549.2:653–664:
  • *:Endogenous interleukin-10 is required for the defervescence of fever evoked by local lipopolysaccharide-induced and Staphylococcus aureus-induced inflammation in rats.
  • *2007 , Management of Fever in Infants'' ''University of Chicago: Pediatric Chief Residents' Website , online Apr. 2007:
  • *:...alternation of Tylenol and Motrin has not been proven to provide faster defervescence .

    • References

    *defervescence'', in ''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Random House, Inc. 2001. Page 523. ISBN 037572026. * defervescence at Merriam-Webster online.