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fastigia

fastigia is the plural of fastigium.

Meaning of fastigium

Noun

fastigium (plural fastigia)

  1. An apex or summit; culmination.
  2. A pediment or gable end.
  3. The most intense phase of a disease, especially a fever.
    • [W]e find that the duration and succession of the febrile phenomena constitute five principal groups. […] 2. Fevers which are essentially continuous in their course (continued fevers), which exhibit but slight daily differences of temperature during their fastigium or acme, and defervesce rapidly...1871, C[arl Reinhold] A[ugust] Wunderlich, “Fundamental Principles”, in W. Bathurst Woodman, transl., On the Temperature in Diseases: A Manual of Medical Thermometry. … Translated from the Second...

Questions about fastigia

What is fastigia the plural of?
Fastigia is the plural of fastigium.

Words near fastigia in the dictionary

  1. fastidious organism
  2. fastidiously
  3. fastidiousness
  4. fastidity
  5. fastidium
  6. fastigia
  7. fastigial
  8. fastigiate
  9. fastigiated
  10. fastigiately
  11. fastigiates

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