| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb fever.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (fever) | 1. To put into a fever; to affect with fever; as, a fevered lip.[Websters]. 2. Base verb from the following inflections: fevering, fevered, fevers, feverer, feverers, feveringly and feveredly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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"FEVERING" is a common misspelling or typo for: revering. |
Date "FEVERING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1874. (references) |
Specialty Definition: fever
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] A disease, characterized by an accelerated pulse, with increase of heat, impaired functions, diminished strength, and often with preternatural thirst. This order of diseases is called by Cullen pyrexy, Gr. Fevers are often or generally preceded by chills or rigors, called the cold stage of the disease. Fevers are of various kinds, but the principal division of fevers is into remitting fevers, which subside or abate at intervals; intermitting fevers, which intermit or entirely cease at intervals; and continued or continual fevers, which neither remit nor intermit.. | 2: [Noun] Heat; agitation; excitement by any thing that strongly affects the passions. This news has given me a fever. This quarrel has set my blood in a fever .. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | |
| Bible | Fever (Deut. 28:22; Matt. 8:14; Mark 1:30; John 4:52; Acts 28:8), a burning heat, as the word so rendered denotes, which attends all febrile attacks. In all Eastern countries such diseases are very common. Peter's wife's mother is said to have suffered from a "great fever" (Luke 4:38), an instance of Luke's professional exactitude in describing disease. He adopts here the technical medical distinction, as in those times fevers were divided into the "great" and the "less." Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. | ||
| Dream Interpretation | 1: To dream of seeing some of your family sick with fever, denotes temporary illness for some of them. 2: To dream that you are stricken with this malady, signifies that you are worrying over trifling affairs while the best of life is slipping past you, and you should pull yourself into shape and engage in profitable work. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... | ||
| Geology | Fever is a physiologic response to infection or related stimuli (e.g. endotoxin, inflammation) such that the body temperature rises above normal. Fever is an attempt to fight off infection by making the body too hot for the invading microbe to function well in. Normal oral temperature being 36.3 C to 37.1 C or 97.3 to 98.8 F. The rectal temperature is about 0.5 C or 1 F higher than the oral temperature. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (usually in combination with one or more preceding words) Any of various diseases. scarlet fever. (references) | 2: [Noun] A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease. "I have a fever. I think I've caught a cold." (references) | 3: [Noun] A state of excitement (of a person or people). (references) |
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Common Expressions: fever
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Argentine hemorrhagic fever | Hemorrhagic fever with neurological signs; caused by the Junin virus. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Assam fever | Leishmaniasis of the viscera. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Ataxic fever | Malignant typhus fever. --Pinel. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Blackwater fever | Severe and often fatal malaria characterized by kidney damage resulting in dark urine. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Blackwater fever | Blackwater fever is a complication of malaria characterized by intravascular haemolysis, haemoglobinuria and kidney failure. Blackwater fever is caused by heavy parasitization of red blood cells with Plasmodium falciparum. When the red blood cells burst, haemoglobin leaks into the blood plasma. This free haemoglobin damages the glomerulus in the kidney, and begins to leak into the urine where it causes further damage to the tubules of the kidney. (references) | ||
| Bolivian hemorrhagic fever | Bolivian hemorrhagic fever (BHF), also known as black typhus or Machupo virus, is a hemorrhagic fever and zoonotic infectious disease occurring in Bolivia. First identified in 1959, black typhus is caused by infection with machupo virus, a negative single-stranded RNA virus of the Arenaviridae family. The infection has a slow onset with fever, malaise, headache and muscular pains. Petechiae (blood spots) on the upper body and bleeding from the nose and gums are observed when the disease progresses to the hemorrhagic phase, usually within seven days of onset. The mortality rate is estimated at 5 to 30 percent. Due to its pathogenicity, Machupo virus requires level four biosafety conditions, the highest level. (references) | ||
| Boutonneuse fever | A disease (common in India and around the Mediterranean area) caused by a rickettsia that is transmitted to humans by a reddish brown tick (ixodid) that lives on dogs and other mammals. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Boutonneuse fever | Boutonneuse fever (also called Mediterranean Fever) is a fever as a result of a Rickettsial infection. Is caused by the bacterium Rickettsia connorii and transmitted by the dog tick Riphicephalus sanguineus. Boutonneuse fever, also called Mediterranean spotted fever is endemic in many countries surrounding the mediterranean sea. After the incubation period of around 7 days, the disease begins abruptly with chills, high fevers, muscular and articular pains, severe headache and photophobia. In the place of the bite forms a black crust (tache noire) Around the 4th day of the illness an exanthem appears, first macular and then maculopapular and sometimes petechial. The diagnosis is made with serologic methods, either the classic Weill Felix test (aglutination of Proteus OX strains ), either ELISA or immunofluorescence assays. The illness is treated with chloramphenicol or doxicyclin. (references) | ||
| Brain fever | Meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Bratz Fashion Party Fever Game | Bratz Fashion Party Fever Game is a collectible card game produced by Upper Deck Entertainment. The first release was in 2004. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: fever
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| African Swine Fever | Health | A usually fatal iridovirus infection of pigs, characterized by fever, cough, diarrhea, hemorrhagic lymph nodes, and edema of the gallbladder. (references) | |
| African Swine Fever Virus | Health | The lone species of the genus African swine fever-like viruses. The virus causes a fatal disease among domestic pigs in Africa and a less virulent infection in Europe. The virus is present in soft ticks (Ornithodoros moubata), warthogs, or domestic pigs. Originally listed as a species of Iridoviridae, the virus exhibits some similarities to Poxviridae but its differences warranted placement in a separate genus of an, as yet unknown, family. (references) | |
| Aphthous fever | Biology & Biotechnology | An acute, highly contagious, viral infection of cloven-hooved animals(cattle, deer, sheep, goats, pigs, etc)characterized initially by vesicular lesions and subsequently by erosions of the epithelium of the mouth, nares, muzzle, feet, teats, udder, and rumen pillars. Very rarely lesions of foot-and-mouth disease occur in man(and have to be differentiated from hand, foot-and-mouth disease). Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Barrel fever | Literature | Intoxication or illness from intemperance in drink. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| BARREL FEVER | Slang in 1811 | 1: BARREL FEVER. He died of the barrel fever; he killed himself by drinking. 2: BAY FEVER. A term of ridicule applied to convicts, who sham illness, to avoid being sent to Botany Bay. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Blackwater Fever | Health | A complication of malaria, falciparum characterized by the passage of dark red to black urine. (references) | |
| Blackwater fever | Medicine | A haemoglobinuric or malignant malaria. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Boutonneuse Fever | Health | A febrile disease of the Mediterranean area, the Crimea, Africa, and India, caused by infection with Rickettsia conorii. (references) | |
| Boutonneuse fever | Medicine | A tick-borne rickettsial disease of man, endemic in the Mediterranean area and caused by Rickettsia conorii. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Bovine petechial fever | Biology & Biotechnology | A tick-borne disease that affects cattle, sheep, goats, and wild ruminants in East Africa. It is caused by a rickettsia-like organism, Ehrlichia(Cytoecetes)ondiri. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: fever
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| FEVER | English | Fuel cell Electric Vehicle for Efficiency and Range | Electrical Engineering | |
| rheu fev | English | Rheumatic fever | Medicine | |
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