Febrile meaning

fĕb'rəl, fē'brəl
The definition of febrile is a person who has a fever or has something caused by a fever.

An example of febrile is someone with the flu and a temperature of 102 degrees.

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Of, relating to, or characterized by fever; feverish.
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Of or characterized by fever; feverish.
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Caused by fever.
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Of, relating to, or characterized by fever; feverish.
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Feverish, or having a high temperature.
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Full of nervous energy.
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Origin of febrile

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

Sentence Examples

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

  • The vast majority of febrile convulsions are not serious.

  • They lessen the general metabolism and lower febrile temperature.

  • Although the constitutional disturbance is at first comparatively slight, it increases with the advance of the disease, and febrile symptoms come on attended with urgent thirst and scanty and painful flow of urine.

  • According to Sir Thomas Fraser nothing else can compete with alcohol as a food in desperate febrile cases, and to this use must be added its antipyretic power already explained and its action as a soporific. During its administration in febrile cases the drug must be most carefully watched, as its action may prove deleterious to the nervous system and the circulation in certain classes of patient.

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