Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Abnormally high fever.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In pathology, a high degree of pyrexia or fever.
Wiktionary
- n. medicine An excessive and unusual elevation of set body temperature greater than or equal to 41°C (105.8°F), or extremely high fever.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) A condition of excessive fever; an elevation of temperature in a disease, in excess of the limit usually observed in that disease.
WordNet 3.0
- n. extremely high fever (especially in children)
Examples
“The term hyperpyrexia is used when the temperature shows a tendency to remain at”
“A patient-consent form warning of hyperpyrexia after a procedure, for example, might be translated to an abnormally high fever.”
The Wall Street Journal: Taking Medical Jargon Out of Doctor Visits
“If the atmosphere is as warm or warmer than the skin during times of high humidity, the blood is brought to the surface of our body and it cannot lose its heat, resulting in a condition called hyperpyrexia.”
The Huffington Post: Donna Henes: It's Not the Heat: It's the Humidity
“OTHER NAMES: Heat hyperpyrexia, sunstroke, thermic fever.”
“OTHER NAMES: High temperature, hyperpyrexia, hyperthermia.”
“Cardiovascular collapse, hyperpyrexia, and sudden death have been reported in such patients.”
Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
“Stuporous patients are unable to eat or drink and, if untreated,, can develop severe dehydration, hemoconcentration, hyperpyrexia, ketosis, and eventually cardiovascular collapse and death.”
Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
“I believe that it has also been fashionable in the so called cases of hyperpyrexia to immerse the patient in a bath varying in temperature from 60° to 98° Fahr.”
“Later, signs of increased intra-cranial tension develop: unconsciousness deepening into coma, paralysis of ocular muscles, rapid pulse, Cheyne-Stokes respiration, and sometimes hyperpyrexia.”
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
“Sometimes it rises as high as 106° or 108° F. -- _cerebral hyperpyrexia_”
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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