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Of or pertaining to the urethra. Urethral fever (Med.), fever occurring as a consequence of operations upon the urethra.

A yellow pigment identical with hydrobilirubin, abundant in the highly colored urine of fever, and also present in normal urine. See Urochrome.

The yellow fever in its worst form, when it is usually attended with black vomit. See Black vomit.

wan; a sallow, dead, pale color; paleness; pallor; as, the wanness of the cheeks after a fever.

A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward.

nurse or attendant; to attend on the sick during the night; as, to watch with a man in a fever.

A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed. [Scot.]

An acute infectious febrile disease, resembling typhoid fever, with muscular pains, disturbance of the digestive organs, jaundice, etc.

ainters." Ray. Men's folly, whimsies, and inconstancy. Swift. Mistaking the whimseys of a feverish brain for the calm revelation of truth. Bancroft.

A test for typhoid fever based on the fact that blood serum of one affected, in a bouillon culture of typhoid bacilli, causes the bacilli to agglutinate and lose their motility.

is fallowed in winter. -- Winter fat. (Bot.) Same as White sage, under White. -- Winter fever (Med.), pneumonia. [Colloq.] -- Winter flounder. (Zoöl.) See the Note under Flounder. -- Winter gull (Zoöl.), the common European gull; -- called also winter mew. [Prov. Eng.] -- Winter itch. (Med.) See Prarie itch, under P…

earth, a yellowish clay, colored by iron, sometimes used as a yellow pigment. -- Yellow fever (Med.), a malignant, contagious, febrile disease of warm climates, attended with jaundice, producing a yellow color of the skin, and with the black vomit. See Black vomit, in the Vocabulary. -- Yellow flag, the quarantine f…