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Faget sign

Faget sign noun: the unusual pairing of fever with bradycardia, seen in certain conditions such as yellow fever and typhoid fever.

Noun

Faget sign

  1. The unusual pairing of fever with bradycardia, seen in certain conditions such as yellow fever and typhoid fever.

Origin of Faget sign

Named after the American physician Jean Charles Faget, who studied yellow fever in Louisiana.

Questions about Faget sign

What does Faget sign mean?
Faget sign means the unusual pairing of fever with bradycardia, seen in certain conditions such as yellow fever and typhoid fever.
What part of speech is Faget sign?
Faget sign is a noun.

Words near Faget sign in the dictionary

  1. Fagernes
  2. Fagers
  3. Fagerstrom
  4. Fagerstroms
  5. Fages
  6. Faget sign
  7. fagette
  8. fagettes
  9. fagface
  10. fagfaces
  11. Fagg

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