Associations to the word «Hyperpyrexia»

Wiktionary

HYPERPYREXIA, noun. (medicine) An excessive and unusual elevation of set body temperature greater than or equal to 41°C (105.8°F), or extremely high fever.

Dictionary definition

HYPERPYREXIA, noun. Extremely high fever (especially in children).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope