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Subsiding vs Defervescence - What's the difference?

subsiding | defervescence |

As nouns the difference between subsiding and defervescence

is that subsiding is the act by which something subsides while defervescence is the departure or subsiding of a fever.

As a verb subsiding

is .

subsiding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something subsides.
  • * 1871 , Edward Balfour, Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial and Scientific
    • With such violent subterranean forces in operation, even at the present day, it is easy to apprehend how numerous must have been the uprisings and subsidings of the solid matter of the earth in this region during bye-gone ages.

    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.