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Definition: Pyrexia |
PyrexiaNoun1. A rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Pyrexia \Py*rex"i*a\, noun; plural Pyrexi[ae]. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression to be feverish, akin to fever.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A fever, or a febrile condition; abnormal elevation of the body temperature. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
It is basically a term used to describe an increase of body temprature to levels which are above normal (37.8 degrees centigrade)and is synonamous with fever.
Pyrexia can be classed as low grade (38-39 degrees), moderate (39-40) or high grade (40 +)depending on how much the body temprature has deviated from normal.
It may be of benefit and is part of the bodies response to a disease however if the fever goes above 42 degrees then it may cause significant tissue damage and would most certainly be harmful.
Fever usually occurs in response to pyrogens (e.g. prostaglandins) which are released from inflammatory cells . These pyrogens act on in the hypothalamus (basically the bodies thermostat ) reseting it to a higher temprature level and in doing so invoking the bodies temprature raising mechanisims and raising the body temprature to a level above normal. The bodies temprature is maintained at that level until the effects of the pyrogens wear off.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pyrexia."
Synonyms: PyrexiaSynonyms: febricity (n), fever (n), feverishness (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Pyrexia |
| English words defined with "pyrexia": Pyrexiae. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "pyrexia": hyperpyrexia. (references) |
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| "Pyrexia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pyrexia" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 17 | 85,106 |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pyrexia | 30 |
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| Language | Translations for "pyrexia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | треска (ague, chip, cod, codfish, coding, fever, fire, shiver, sliver, splint, the shakes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 发热状态. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | pyrexia, pyrexi, pyreksi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | pyrexie, pyrexia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pyreksia (fever), kuume (ague, fever). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pyrexie (f), pyrexie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Pyrexie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πυρεξία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | piressia, febbre (ague, fever, temperature). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | chiassaghey (fever). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yrexiapay pirexia. (various references) лихорадка;гипертермия (pyrexiae). (various references) pirexia. (various references) pyrexi, feber (ague, excitement, fever, flurry, temperature). (various references) yüksek ateş (high fever, pyrogen), humma (fever, the shivers). (various references) пропасниця (ague, fever). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pyrexia": pyrexial, pyrexias. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "pyrexia": hyperpyrexia. (additional references) | |
Words containing "pyrexia": hyperpyrexias. (additional references) | |
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"Pyrexia" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apyrexial, Phraxiot, phyrexia, Pieria, praxia, pyaemia, pyrexial, pyrexic, pyroxia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "pyrexia" (pronounced 'Py*rex"i*a'): Actinia, Agraphia, Alexia, Amia, Amphibiotica, Anaphrodisia, Anatifa, Aplysia, Archiannelida, Arthrodynia, Battalia, Brachia, Cassiopeia, Cecidomyia, Cilia, Crocodilia, Cynorexia, Daira, Decagynia, Eschscholtzia, Fidia, forsythia, Fritillaria, Garcinia, Geophila, Geropigia, Gloxinia, harmonica, hemophilia, hepatica, Hygeia, hyperpyrexia, Ixia, japonica, jinrikisha, Lacertilia, LAMINA, Lithia, Lucernarida, Maia, majolica, Melopoeia, memorabilia, Miliola, Monogynia, Narica, natica, Neocarida, Notabilia, Octogynia. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-p-r-x-y" | |
-1 letter: expiry. | |
-2 letters: apery, payer, prexy, pyxie, repay. | |
-3 letters: aery, airy, aper, apex, eyra, pair, pare, pear, peri, pier, pixy, pray, prex, prey, pyre, rape, reap, ripe, yare, year, yipe. | |
-4 letters: air, ape, are, axe, aye, ear, era, ire, par, pax, pay, pea, per, pia, pie, pix, pry, pya, pye, pyx, rap, rax, ray, rei. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-p-r-x-y" | |
+1 letter: pyrexial, pyrexias. | |
+2 letters: expiatory. | |
+3 letters: expiratory. | |
+4 letters: exemplarily, exemplarity, explicatory, proximately. | |
+5 letters: expansionary, hyperpyrexia, lexicography, premaxillary, pyridoxamine, xylographies. | |
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