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HYPERPYREXIA

• HYPERPYREXIA (noun)
The noun HYPERPYREXIA has 1 sense:

1. extremely high fever (especially in children)

Familiarity information: HYPERPYREXIA used as a noun is very rare.

• HYPERPYREXIA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Extremely high fever (especially in children)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("hyperpyrexia" is a kind of...):

hyperthermia; hyperthermy (abnormally high body temperature; sometimes induced (as in treating some forms of cancer))

febricity; febrility; fever; feverishness; pyrexia (a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection)

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(Czech proverb)

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