pyrexia
English edit
Etymology edit
From post-classical Latin pyrexia, from Ancient Greek πυρεξία (purexía, “feverishness”), from πυρετός (puretós, “fever”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pʌɪˈrɛk.si.ə/, /pɪˈrɛk.si.ə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /paɪˈrɛk.si.ə/
- Hyphenation: py‧rex‧i‧a
Noun edit
pyrexia (countable and uncountable, plural pyrexias or pyrexiae)
- (medicine) Fever. [from 18th c.]
- 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.