Febrile Definition

fĕbrəl, fēbrəl
adjective
Of or characterized by fever; feverish.
Webster's New World
Caused by fever.
Webster's New World

Full of nervous energy.

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Origin of Febrile

  • From Late Latin febrilis, from Latin febris ‘fever’.

    From Wiktionary

  • Late Latin febrīlis from Latin febris fever

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Febrile Sentence Examples

  • The vast majority of febrile convulsions are not serious.

  • Its use in febrile diseases, at one time extensive, is now obsolete.

  • Febrile seizures are convulsions of sudden onset due to abnormal electrical activity in the brain that is caused by fever.

  • It seems clear that febrile convulsions make up an extremely heterogeneous group for which there is no single mode of inheritance.

  • Acute febrile polyneuritis Acute febrile polyneuritis was one of six classes of polyneuropathy proposed by Ostler in 1892.

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