Fever

Definition: Fever

Fever

Noun

1. A rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection.

2. Intense nervous anticipation; "in a fever of resentment".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "fever" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Fever \Fe"ver\, noun. [Old English fever, fefer, Anglo-Saxon fefer, fefor, Latin febris: compare to French fi[`e]vre. Compare to Febrile.]. (references)

Bible

Dream Interpretation

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FEVER

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Synonyms: Fever

Disease

Sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil; pimple, wen; (swelling); carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issue; rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore; cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor; caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus, sphacelation, leprosy; eruption, rash, breaking out.

Fever, temperature, calenture; inflammation.

Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack.

Excitability

Trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry, fuss, flurry; fluster, flutter; pother, stew, ferment; whirl; buck fever; hurry-skurry, thrill; (feeling); state of excitement, fever of excitement; transport.

Passion, excitement, flush, heat; fever, heat; fire, flame, fume, blood boiling; tumult; effervescence, ebullition; boiling over; whiff, gust, story, tempest; scene, breaking out, burst, fit, paroxysm, explosion; outbreak, outburst; agony.

Excitation

Fan the fire, fan the flame; blow the coals, stir the embers; fan into a flame; foster, heat, warm, foment, raise to a fever heat; keep up, keep the pot boiling; revive, rekindle; rake up, rip up.

Adjective: excited; Verb: wrought up, up the qui vive, astir, sparkling; in a quiver; in a fever, in a ferment, in a blaze, in a state of excitement; in hysterics; black in the face, overwrought, tense, taught, on a razor's edge; hot, red-hot, flushed, feverish; all of a twitter, in a pucker; with quivering lips, with tears in one's eyes.

Heat

Noun: heat, caloric; temperature, warmth, fervor, calidity; incalescence, incandescence; glow, flush; fever, hectic.

Fiery; incandescent, incalescent; candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking; live; on fire; dazzling. Verb: in flames, blazing, in a blaze; alight, afire, ablaze; unquenched, unextinguished; smoldering; in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat; sudorific; sweltering, sweltered; blood hot, blood warm; warm as a toast, warm as wool.

Crosswords: Fever

Springfield has come down with a fever: football fever (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell (Saturday Night Live; writing credit: Doug Abeles; Leo Allen)

His fever broke about an hour ago, and I asked him if he wanted something to eat, and he said only if I order out. (Stingray; writing credit: Gary DeVore; Jimmy Huston)

In view of the fact that our Highness was taken violently ill at three o'clock this morning, put to bed with a high fever, and has ordered all her appointments for the day cancelled in toto (Roman Holiday; writing credit: Ian McLellan Hunter)

It's a good non-specific symptom; I'm a big believer in it. A lot of people will tell you that a good phony fever is a dead lock, but, uh you get a nervous mother, you could wind up in a doctor's office (Ferris Bueller's Day Off; writing credit: John Hughes)

School's out with fever (School's Out; performing artist: Alice Cooper)

I ain't got a fever got a permanent disease (Bad Medicine; performing artist: Bon Jovi)

This fever for you is just burning me up inside (I Drove All Night; performing artist: Cyndi Lauper)

It's Saturday, this night fever (Left & Right Featuring Method Man And Redman; performing artist: D'Angelo)

The fever is high (One Of These Nights; performing artist: Eagles)

Fever (2003)

Body Fever (1969)

Passion Fever (1969)

Fever Heat (1968)

Hay Fever (1968)

Night Fever (performing artist: The Bee Gees)

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References

• The 2002 Official Patient's Sourcebook on Yellow Fever (reference)

• The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Typhoid Fever (reference)

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Cough, Cold, Allergy and Hay Fever Remedies (reference)

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Books

• Full Moon Fever (Goosebumps Series 2000, 22) (reference)

• Tumbleweed Fever (reference)

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Periodicals

• Corvette Fever Magazine (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Saturday Night Fever (reference)

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Music

• Fever (reference)

• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 6 - Fever 105 [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• Music Legends: Soul Fever (reference)

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High Tech

• NFL Fever 2000 (reference)

• NFL Fever 2002 (reference)

• NFL Fever 2003 (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Bebe Sounds Remote Fever Monitor (reference)

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Cotton treated with 0.5% Permethrin is collected by rodents to take back to their nests to kill fleas, preventing the transmission of Bubonic Plague & Colorado Tick Fever by such fleas and ticks to other rodents and people. Credit: CDC.

After the incubation period of 2-6 days, symptoms of the plague appear including severe malaise, headache, shaking chills, fever, and pain and swelling, or adenopathy, in the affected regional lymph nodes, also known as buboes. Credit: CDC.

The Aedes aegypti is a vector for Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF), as well as Yellow Fever. This mosquito is 3 - 4mm in length, and is black with white spots on the body and head regions, and has white rings on its legs. Credit: CDC.

The Ebola virus is a member of Filovirus family. It is known to be spread through close contact with an infected host. Mortality rates of an individual with Hemorrhagic fever range from 50-90%. Credit: CDC.

Pulmonary disease common symptoms are fever, cough, and chest pain; for central nervous system disease symptoms are usually headache, lethargy, confusion, seizures, and sudden onset of neurologic deficit. Credit: CDC.

Trichinosis, or trichinellosis, is caused by eating raw or undercooked pork infected with the larvae of a species of worm called Trichinella. Initial symptoms include nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, fatigue, fever, and abdominal discomfort. Credit: CDC.

Sign over the cell that housed Dr. Samuel Mudd, controversial doctor who treated John Wilkes Booth following Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Mudd was convicted of helping Booth and served three years of his sentence at Fort Jefferson. He helped treat many Union soldiers during a yellow fever epidemic and was subsequently paroled. Credit: America's Coastlines.

After a 36-year campaign, cattle fever ticks were finally declared eradicated from the United States in 1943. Today, the only remaining area where these ticks are found is a narrow strip of land along the Texas-Mexico border that has been quarantined ever since 1938. These cattle are going through a tick treatment bath at an APHIS facility in McAllen, Texas. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Entomologist Elmer Ahrens (left) and animal caretaker Adolfo Pena inspect for cattle fever ticks. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

At the Rio Grande, Robert Rodriguez (left) and Horico Garza, of USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, search for livestock that may be carrying ticks. Cattle fever ticks have been eradicated from this country since 1943 except for a narrow strip along the border. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The fever was over, and Emma could harbour little fear of the pulse being quickened again by injurious courtesy

Fever supports the sick man, and love the lover

Sometimes a fever gathered within him and led him to rove alone in the evening along the quiet avenue

The children caught the fever and were more noisy than usual

He assured me upon his honor that he was not poisoned, but died of a fever by excessive drinking

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Health

The child had scarlet fever. (references)

Newsome, J.T. (1997).  Q fever. (references)

New Zealand is free of dengue fever. (references)

Business

A yellow fever vaccination certificate is required from travelers coming from infected areas. (references)

Economic History

Japan

These policies result in medium-sized Japanese owner-managed firms developing "IPO fever," with the anticipation of the windfall of OTC market listing--even though it may or may not happen soon--leading them to be reluctant to be acquired. (references)

Human Rights

Kenya

According to the Government, 464 prisoners died in jails during the first 11 months of the year, compared with 768 in 2000. Deaths were due chiefly to tuberculosis, dysentery, anemia, malaria, heart attack, typhoid fever, and HIV/AIDS, for which there is little access to health care and medicine. (references)

Political Economy

Somalia

A livestock ban, lifted in 2000, was reinstituted by Saudi Arabia because of fears of Rift Valley fever and reportedly because of Saudi political considerations. (references)

Trade

Lithuania

For meat imports, the State Veterinary Department provides border inspection controls for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), classical swine fever, salmonella, FMD etc. (references)

Costa Rica

The Government of Costa Rica prohibits the importation of used tires without rims, because mosquitoes carrying yellow fever or dengue fever breed in water accumulated in rimless tires. (references)

Travel

Senegal

Evidence of a vaccination for yellow fever may be required at the port of entry. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "fever": African swine fever ♦ African Swine Fever Virus ♦ algid fever ♦ aphthous fever ♦ assam fever ♦ Ataxic fever ♦ Australian fever ♦ barber bug fever ♦ be in a fever ♦ blackwater fever ♦ boutonneuse fever ♦ bovine infectious petechial fever ♦ bovine petechial fever ♦ brain fever ♦ break bone fever ♦ breakbone fever ♦ bright with fever ♦ buck fever ♦ burn up with fever ♦ camp fever ♦ canicola fever ♦ canine hemorrhagic fever ♦ cat fever ♦ catarrhal fever ♦ cattle tick fever ♦ cerebrospinal fever ♦ Chagres fever ♦ childbed fever ♦ Chill and fever ♦ chills and fever ♦ classical swine fever ♦ Colorado Tick Fever ♦ Colorado Tick Fever Virus ♦ Continued fever ♦ copper fever ♦ cotton mill fever ♦ Cyprus fever ♦ Dandy fever ♦ deer fly fever ♦ dengue fever ♦ Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever ♦ duck fever ♦ dumdum fever ♦ East African swine fever ♦ election fever ♦ enteric fever ♦ Ephemeral Fever ♦ equine biliary fever ♦ Essential fever ♦ Familial Mediterranean Fever ♦ Famine fever ♦ Fever and ague ♦ fever blister ♦ fever bush ♦ fever heat ♦ fever of excitement ♦ Fever of Unknown Origin ♦ fever powder ♦ Fever root ♦ Fever sore ♦ fever tree ♦ free from fever ♦ fume fever ♦ Gastric fever ♦ Gastric remittent fever ♦ Gibraltar fever ♦ glandular fever ♦ Gold fever ♦ haemorrhagic fever ♦ have a fever ♦ have blisters or fever on lips ♦ Haverhill fever ♦ hay fever ♦ Hectic fever ♦ hemorrhagic fever ♦ Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome ♦ high fever ♦ hospital fever ♦ i have a fever ♦ indian tick fever ♦ Inflammatory fever ♦ intermittent fever ♦ irritative fever ♦ jail fever ♦ jungle fever ♦ Kenya fever ♦ Lahore canine fever ♦ Lassa Fever ♦ lay sick of a fever ♦ Lazaret fever ♦ Lung fever ♦ Malarial fever ♦ malta fever ♦ Malte fever ♦ Marseilles fever ♦ marsh fever ♦ mediterranean fever ♦ miliary fever ♦ military fever ♦ milk fever ♦ mill fever. Additional references.

Beginning with "fever": fever-bearing, fever-few, fever-haunted, fever-induced, fever-infested, fever-pitch, fever-reducing, fever-ridden, fever-spot, fever-steppes, fever-stricken, fever-tree, fever-van, fever-weed.

Ending with "fever": hay-fever.

Containing "fever": yellow-fever mosquito.

Afrikaans

koors (ague). (various references)

Albanian

zjarrmi (Ardor, ardour, fervor, fervour, fire, glow, heat, temperature), temperaturë (heat, temperature), nxehtë (hot), ethe (chill, fire, shake, temperature), afsh (breath, fervor, fervour, heat, lust, odor, odour, oestrum, oestrus, passion, vivacity). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نشاط بالغ, ‏حمى متموجة, ‏حمى (advocate, anneal, broil, buckler, bulwark, conserve, cover, defend, diet, fence, feverish, guard, haven, heat, overheating, patronize, protect, safeguard, shelter, stove, superheat, vindicate, warm up), ‏حماس بالغ, ‏حرارة (cordiality, geniality, glow, heat, temperature, warmth). (various references)

Bulgarian 

трескаво състояние, треска (ague, chip, cod, codfish, coding, fire, pyrexia, shiver, sliver, splint, the shakes), температура (heat, temperature), нервно възбуждение, малария (ague, malaria). (various references)

Catalan

febre (ague). (various references)

Chinese 

觱 (tartar horn), 热病, 燒 (to bake, to burn, to cook, to roast, to stew). (various references)

Czech

teplota (temperature), horeèka (craze, temperature). (various references)

Danish

feber (ague). (various references)

Dutch

koorts (ague). (various references)

Esperanto

febro. (various references)

Faeroese

fepur (ague), hiti (ague, warmth), hitasótt (ague). (various references)

Finnish

kuume (ague). (various references)

French

fièvre. (various references)

German

Fieber (ague, temperature). (various references)

Greek 

πυρετός (temperature). (various references)

Hebrew 

מתח (bias, margin, strain, suspense, tension, tizzy), קדחת (ague, malaria), חמה (heat, summer, sun, warmth), זלעפה (storm), חום (dark, heat, temperature, warmth), דלקת (inflammation, sore). (various references)

Hungarian

láz (heat, temperature). (various references)

Indonesian

demam (ague, aguish, cold, fad, feverish). (various references)

Italian

febbre (ague, temperature). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

熱発 , 熱病 (febrile disease), 熱 (temperature), フィードバック制御 (feedback control, feed-forward, feeling, field, field archery, field athletic, field goal, field map, field note, fielding, fieldman, Fields, fieldwork). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

フィーバー , ねつびょう (febrile disease), ねつ (temperature), ねっぱつ. (various references)

Korean 

발열 (Exothermic). (various references)

Malay

demam (ague). (various references)

Manx

cur chiassaghey er, chiassaghey (pyrexia). (various references)

Norwegian

feber. (various references)

Papiamen

keintura (ague). (various references)

Pig Latin

everfay.(various references)

Polish

gorączka (ague). (various references)

Portuguese

febre (ague, temperature). (various references)

Romanian

friguri (flush), fierbinţealã (Ardor, ardour, excitement, fervour, fire, fluster, heat, hot-bloodedness, warmth), fierbere (agitation, boil, boiling, brewage, commotion, ebullition, effervescence, effervescency, emotion, fermentation, fizz, gurgitation, tumult), febrã (ague, febrility), temperaturã (burning, fire, flush, temperature), provoca febrã, cãldurã (Ardor, ardour, caloric, fervidness, fervour, fire, fondness, heat, richness, temperature, warmth, zeal), avea febrã (have a temperature), agitaţie (ado, agitation, bustle, clutter, commotion, dusty, emotion, excitement, ferment, fermentation, flurry, flutter, fret, go, haste, inquietude, nervousness, perturbation, restlessness, riotousness, roughness, squirm, stir, trepidation, unrest, vexation, working). (various references)

Russian 

лихорадка (ague, fire, shaking). (various references)

Scottish

teasach. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

temperatura (temperature), groznica (feverishness, herpes). (various references)

Spanish

fiebre (ague, temp, temperature), calentura (calenture, temp, temperature). (various references)

Sranan

korsu (ague). (various references)

Swahili

homa (ague). (various references)

Swedish

feber (ague, excitement, flurry, temperature). (various references)

Tagalog

lagnát (ague). (various references)

Thai

การเป็นไข้. (various references)

Turkish

yanıp tutuşmak (ache for, ache to, burn), telaş (ado, alarm, bustle, commotion, directness, discomposure, disturbance, excitement, ferment, flap, flurry, flutter, fume, fuss, fussiness, haste, hastiness, helter-skelter, hurry, panic, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, pucker, racket, ruffle, rush, stir, storm, taking, tingle, tizzy, to-do, turmoil, whirl), humma (pyrexia, the shivers), heyecan (affect, agitation, animation, Ardor, ardour, bang, commotion, dither, drama, emotion, enthusiasm, exaltation, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fire, flap, flurry, flush, flutter, furor, furore, glow, kick, pucker, razzle-dazzle, rhapsody, ruffle, sensation, shiver, spice, spring tide, stir, taking, tension, the shivers, thrill, tingle, twitter, vibes, vibration, wallop, warmth, yeast), hararet (caloric, fervor, fervour, feverishness, flush, heat, intenseness, swelter, temperature, thirst, warmth), atex (ague, fire), ateşlenmek, ateş (blaze, fire, flush, heat, mettle, pyro-, temperature). (various references)

Turkmen 

ysytma (malaria), tebit (heat), яoс (chill, cold), howur (ardour, heat). (various references)

Ukrainian

гарячка, викликати жар, знобити (ague), жар (ardency, ardour, broil, burning, heat, temperature, zest), лихоманка, пропасниця (ague, pyrexia). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự bồn chồn (restlessness), cơn sốt bệnh sốt sự xúc động. (various references)

Welsh

twymyn, cryd (ague, shivering), clefyd (disease). (various references)

Zulu

imfiva (ague). (various references)

tab. (various references)

febris. (various references)

tafnu. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "fever": fevered, feverfew, feverfews, fevering, feverish, feverishly, feverishness, feverishnesses, feverous, fevers, feverwort, feverworts. (additional references)

Words ending with "fever": enfever. (additional references)

Words containing "fever": enfevered, enfevering, enfevers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Fever" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: effer, farver, fava, favar, favart, faver, faveur, Favier, favre, feave, feaver, Febvre, feer, feev, feeve, feier, femer, Ferer, ferver, feuer, Feuvre, feva, fevar, feve, fevern, fevor, Fevre, fevum, fevver, Feyer, fezer, ffeaver, fivet, fivre, fivver, foever, fover, fver, Jever, oever, pever. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ever, fere, free, reef, veer.

-2 letters: ere, eve, fee, fer, ree, ref, rev, vee.

-3 letters: ef, er, re.

+1 letter: fevers.

+2 letters: enfever, fervent, fevered, forever, overfed.

+3 letters: enfevers, fervency, feverfew, fevering, feverish, feverous, forevers, leftover, overfear, overfeed, overflew, overfree, overleaf, overrife, reverify, verified, verifier, verifies.

+4 letters: confervae, enfevered, fervently, feverfews, feverwort, forgetive, leftovers, lifesaver, overbrief, overfears, overfeeds, overflies, perfervid, reflexive, verbified, verbifies, verifiers, vermifuge, versified, versifier, versifies.

+5 letters: afterlives, aftershave, cloverleaf, effervesce, enfevering, federative, fervencies, fervidness, feverishly, feverworts, forehooves, interfluve, lifesavers, overfacile, overfeared, overfilled, overfished, overfishes, overflowed, overfunded, overruffed, perfective, reflective, reflexives, refractive, revengeful, reverified, reverifies, revivified, revivifies, unverified, verifiable, vermifuges, versifiers, viewfinder, vociferate.