fever Alternative forms
* fevre (qualifier)
Noun
( en noun)
A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.
- "I have a fever . I think I've caught a cold."
(usually, in combination with one or more preceding words) Any of various diseases.
- scarlet fever
A state of excitement (of a person or people).
* Shakespeare
- an envious fever
A group of stingrays.
Synonyms
* (higher than normal body temperature): high temperature, pyrexia (medical term ), temperature
* (state of excitement): excitation, excitement, passion
Derived terms
* abortus fever
* absorption fever
* acclimating fever
* Aden fever
* adynamic fever
* aestivoautumnal fever, estivoautumnal fever
* African Coast fever
* African haemorrhagic fever, African hemorrhagic fever
* algid pernicious fever
* aphthous fever
* ardent fever
* arthropod-borne fever
* artificial fever
* aseptic fever
* Assam fever
* ataxic fever
* autumn fever
* barrel fever
* Bay fever
* beaver fever
* benign tertian fever
* biduoterian fever
* biliary fever
* bilious fever
* bilious remittent fever
* black fever
* black fly fever
* blackwater fever
* blue fever
* bouquet fever
* boutonneuse fever
* bovine ephemeral fever
* bovine epizootic fever
* bovine infectious petechial fever
* bovine malignant catarrhal fever
* bovine petechial fever
* brain fever, brain-fever
* brass founder's fever, brassfounder's fever
* Brazilian purpuric fever
* breakbone fever
* buck fever, buck-fever
* Bullis fever
* bullous fever
* Bunyamwera fever
* Burdwan fever
* Bwamba fever
* cabin fever
* cachectic fever, cachexial fever
* California valley fever
* camp fever, camp-fever
* cane-cutter fever
* cane-field fever, canefield fever
* canicola fever
* Cape Horn fever
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* Carter's fever
* cat-bite fever
* catarrhal fever
* cat fever
* catheter fever
* cat scratch fever, cat-scratch fever
* central fever
* cerebro-spinal fever, cerebrospinal fever
* Chagres fever
* channel fever
* Charcot intermittent fever, Charcot's intermittent fever
* Charcot's fever
* chikungunya fever
* childbed fever
* childbirth fever
* Choix fever
* congestive fever
* Congolian red fever
* Congo red fever
* continued fever, continuous fever
* cotton fever
* cotton-mill fever
* country fever
* Crimean fever
* Cyprus fever
* dance fever
* dandy fever, dandy-fever
* date fever
* day-fever
* deer fly fever, deer-fly fever
* dehydration fever
* dengue fever
* desert fever
* diary fever
* digestive fever
* diphasic milk fever
* disfever
* dock fever
* double quotidian fever
* drug fever
* duck fever
* dumdum fever
* Dutch type periodic fever
* East Coast fever
* Ebola fever
* Ebola virus fever
* elephantoid fever
* Elokomin fluke fever
* enfever
* enteric fever
* entericoid fever
* entrance fever
* ephemeral fever
* epimastical fever
* eruptive fever
* essential fever
* exanthematous fever
* exsiccation fever
* falciparum fever
* familial Hibernian fever
* familial periodic fever
* famine fever
* farrowing fever
* fatigue fever
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* feverable
* fever ague
* fever and ague
* fever-bark
* fever blister, fever-blister
* fever bush, feverbush
* fever-chart
* fever-cooling
* fevered
* feveress
* feveret
* fever-fly
* fever grass
* fever-heat
* fever-hectic
* feverish
* feverite
* fever lent
* feverless
* fever-lurdan, fever-lurgan
* fever-lurden
* fever-lurk
* feverly
* fever-nut
* fever of unknown origin
* feverous
* fever pitch
* fever powder, fever-powder
* fever ring
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* fever root, fever-root
* fever-sick
* fever sore, fever-sore
* fever therapy
* fever thermometer
* fever-trap
* fever treatment
* fever tree, fever-tree
* fever twig, fever-twig
* fever-weakened
* fever-weed
* fever-wood
* fever-wort, feverwort
* fevery
* field fever
* five-day fever
* flood fever
* fog fever
* Fort Bragg fever
* food fever
* Fort Bragg fever
* Foshay-Mollaret cat-scratch fever, Foshay-Mollaret cat-scratch fever syndrome
* foundryman's fever
* Gambian fever
* gaol fever, gaol-fever
* gastric fever
* gastric remittent fever
* Gibraltar fever
* glandular fever
* gold fever, gold-fever
* grain fever
* green fever
* haematuric bilious fever, hematuric bilious fever
* haemoglobinuric fever, hemoglobinuric fever
* haemorrhagic fever, hemorrhagic fever
* Hankow fever
* harvest fever
* Hasami fever
* Haverhill fever
* hay fever, hay-fever
* hectic fever
* hempen fever
* hepatic intermittent fever
* herpetic fever
* horse sickness fever
* hospital fever
* humidifier fever
* icterohaemorrhagic fever, icterohemorrhagic fever
* Ilheus fever
* inanition fever
* induced fever
* inflammatory fever
* intermittent fever
* inundation fever
* island fever
* Jaccoud's dissociated fever
* jail-fever, jail fever
* Japanese flood fever
* Japanese river fever
* jungle fever, jungle-fever
* jungle yellow fever
* Junin fever
* Katayama fever
* Kedani fever
* Kenya fever
* Kew Gardens fever
* Kinkiang fever
* Korin fever
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* land fever
* Lassa fever
* Lassa haemorrhagic fever, Lassa hemorrhagic fever
* laurel fever
* Lazaret fever
* lechuguilla fever
* Lombard fever
* Lone Star fever
* lung fever
* malarial fever
* malignant catarrhal fever
* malignant tertian fever
* Malta fever
* Manchurian fever
* Marseilles fever
* marsh fever, marsh-fever
* Mediterranean coast fever
* Mediterranean erythematous fever
* Mediterranean exanthematous fever
* Mediterranean fever
* meningotyphoid fever
* metal fume fever
* Meuse fever
* Mexican fever
* Mianeh fever
* miliary fever
* milk fever, milk-fever
* mill fever
* Monday fever
* monoleptic fever
* Mossman fever
* mountain fever
* mud fever
* mumu fever
* Murchison-Pel-Ebstein fever
* Murchison-Sanderson fever
* nanukayami fever
* Neapolitan fever
* nervous fever
* nine mile fever
* nodal fever
* Ohio River Valley fever
* o'nyong-nyong fever
* Oropouche fever
* Oroya fever
* Pahvant Valley fever
* paludal fever
* papataci fever, papatasi fever, pappataci fever
* papular fever
* paratyphoid fever
* parenteric fever
* parrot fever
* parturient fever
* Pel-Ebstein fever
* periodic fever
* petechial fever
* Pfeiffer's glandular fever
* pharyngoconjunctival fever
* phlebotomus fever
* pink-fever
* pinta fever
* pituitous fever
* polka fever
* polyleptic fever
* polymer fume fever
* Pomona fever
* Pontiac fever
* Potomac fever
* Potomac horse fever
* pretibial fever
* prison fever, prison-fever
* prison fever typhus
* protein fever
* puerperal fever
* puking fever
* purple fever
* putrid fever
* Pym fever, Pym's fever
* pyogenic fever
* Q fever
* query fever
* rabbit fever
* rat-bite fever, ratbite fever
* recrudescent typhus fever
* recurrent fever
* recurring fever
* red fever
* redwater fever
* relapsing fever
* remittent fever
* rheumatic fever
* Rhodesian fever, Rhodesian redwater fever
* rice-field fever
* Rift Valley fever
* Rock fever, rock fever
* Rocky Mountain fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever
* Roman fever
* rose fever, rose-fever
* Ross River fever
* rotanny fever
* run a fever
* sakushu fever
* Salinem fever
* salt fever
* sand-fly fever, sandfly fever
* San Joaquin fever, San Joaquin Valley fever
* Santa Marta fever
* Sao Paulo fever,
* scarlet fever
* Schamberg fever
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* secondary fever
* Sennetsu fever
* septic fever
* Shar Pei fever
* shin bone fever
* ship fever, ship-fever
* shipping fever
* shoddy fever
* Sindbis fever
* slime fever
* slow fever
* smelter's fever
* snail fever
* solar fever
* Songo fever
* South African tick-bite fever, South African tickbite fever
* spelter's fever
* spirillary fever
* spirillum fever
* splenic fever
* spotted fever
* spottled fever
* spring fever
* sthenic fever
* stockyards fever
* steroid fever
* stranger's fever
* streptobacillary fever
* summer fever
* sun fever
* suppurative fever
* surgical fever
* swamp fever
* swine fever
* symptomatic fever
* syphilitic fever
* Texas cattle fever, Texas fever
* therapeutic fever
* thermic fever
* thirst fever
* threshing fever
* tick-bite fever
* tick-borne fever
* tick fever
* Tobia fever
* traumatic fever
* trench fever
* trypanosome fever
* tsutsugamushi fever
* typhoid fever
* typhus fever
* undifferentiated type fever
* undulant fever
* undulating fever
* upgrade fever
* urethral fever
* urinary fever
* urticarial fever
* uveoparotid fever
* valley fever
* verruga fever
* vivax fever
* war fever
* Wesselsbron fever
* West African fever
* West Nile fever
* Whitmore's fever
* winter fever
* Wolhynia fever
* womb fever
* worm fever
* wound fever
* Yangtze Valley fever
* yellow fever
* Zika fever
* zinc fume fever
Related terms
* fervent
* fervid
* fervor
See also
* hyperthermia
Verb
( en verb)
To put into a fever; to affect with fever.
- a fevered lip
- The white hand of a lady fever thee. — Shakespeare.
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sextan English
Adjective
(-)
(obsolete, medicine) That recurs on the sixth day
Noun
( en noun)
(obsolete, medicine) Such a fever
Anagrams
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