febricant

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.