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as a precursor or harbinger; indicating something to follow; as, precursory symptoms of a fever.

or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever.

To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.

Of or pertaining to childbirth; as, a puerperal fever.

proceeding from a decayed state of animal or vegetable matter; as, a putrid smell. Putrid fever (Med.), typhus fever; -- so called from the decomposing and offensive state of the discharges and diseased textures of the body. -- Putrid sore throat (Med.), a gangrenous inflammation of the fauces and pharynx.…

ultiple abscesses throughout the body, and is attended with irregularly recurring chills, fever, profuse sweating, and exhaustion.

resembling, and isomeric with, ordinary camphor, and extracted from the essential oil of feverfew; -- called also Pyrethrum camphor.

Of or pertaining to fever; febrile.

A discourse or treatise on fevers; the doctrine of fevers. Hooper.

Of or pertaining to fever; feverish.

aid of substances, as septic poisons, which elevate the temperature of the body and cause fever.

to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quartan ague, or fever.

y considerable swelling, painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever. It sometimes creates danger of suffocation; -- called also squinancy, and squinzey.

, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever. -- n. (Med.)

Occurring or returning daily; as, a quotidian fever.

To occur at a stated interval, or according to some regular rule; as, the fever will recur to-night.

Running back toward its origin; as, a recurrent nerve or artery. Recurrent fever. (Med.) See Relapsing fever, under Relapsing. -- Recurrent pulse (Physiol.), the pulse beat which appears (when the radial artery is compressed at the wrist) on the distal side of the point of pressure through the arteries of the palm of…

Cooling; allaying heat or fever. Bacon.

Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state. Relapsing fever (Med.), an acute, epidemic, contagious fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia, and some other regions. It is marked by one or two remissions of the fever, by articular and muscular pains, and by the presence…

orce or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits.