Search the Dictionary

To cease for a time or at intervals; to moderate; to be intermittent, as a fever. Pope.

Coming and going at intervals; alternating; recurrent; periodic; as, an intermittent fever. Boyle. Intermittent fever (Med.), a disease with fever which recurs at certain intervals; -- applied particularly to fever and ague. See Fever. -- Intermittent gearing (Mach.), gearing which receives, or produces, intermittent…

Accompanied with, or produced by, increased action or irritation; as, an irritative fever. E. Darwin.

ow in illumination the features of a human face, etc. -- Yellow Jack (Naut.), the yellow fever; also, the quarantine flag. See Yellow flag, under Flag.

il, either legally or by violence. -- Jail delivery commission. See under Gaol. -- Jail fever (Med.), typhus fever, or a disease resembling it, generated in jails and other places crowded with people; -- called also hospital fever, and ship fever. -- Jail liberties, or Jail limits, a space or district around a jail…

Antimonial powder, first prepared by Dr. James, ar English physician; -- called also fever powder.

sediment (Med.), a sediment in urine resembling brick dust, observed after the crises of fevers, and at the termination of gouty paroxysms. It usually consists of uric acid or urates with some coloring matter.

Moderate; not intense; not inflammatory; as, low heat; a low temperature; a low fever.

ease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma.

alaria; P. malariæ, quartan malaria; and P. (subgenus Laverania) falciferum, the malarial fever of summer and autumn common in the tropics.

Of or pertaining, to or infected by, malaria. Malarial fever (Med.), a fever produced by malaria, and characterized by the occurrence of chills, fever, and sweating in distinct paroxysms, At intervals of definite and often uniform duration, in which these symptoms are wholly absent (intermittent fever), or only partial…

Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever.

A wasting of flesh without fever or apparent disease; a kind of consumption; atrophy; phthisis. Pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence. Milton. Marasmus senilis Etym: [L.], progressive atrophy of the aged.

Characterized by emaciation, as a fever. Harvey.

The feverfew.

the eruption gradually decline; rubeola. Measles commences with the ordinary symptoms of fever. Am. Cyc.

Having fever stamens than the parts of the corolla.

A fever accompanied by an eruption of small, isolated, red pimples, resembling a millet seed in form or size; miliary fever.

Accompanied with an eruption like millet seeds; as, a miliary fever.

vesicular eczema occurring on the face and scalp of nursing infants. See Eczema. -- Milk fever. (a) (Med.) A fever which accompanies or precedes the first lactation. It is usually transitory. (b) (Vet. Surg.) A form puerperal peritonitis in cattle; also, a variety of meningitis occurring in cows after calving. -- Mil…