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febricant

febricant adjective: causing fever.

Adjective

febricant

  1. (archaic) Causing fever.

Noun

febricant (plural febricants)

  1. (archaic) A patient who has a fever.
    • Gavaret mathematically demonstrated in 1839 the increase of body-heat when the febricant shivers with cold, and its precedence of some hours before the chill, by which signs the therapeutist is warned in time to administer the antidote.1876, Edward Seguin, Medical Thermometry and Human Temperature, page 200

Forms of febricant

pluralfebricants

Questions about febricant

What does febricant mean?
Febricant means causing fever.
What part of speech is febricant?
Febricant can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near febricant in the dictionary

  1. Febos
  2. Febreze
  3. Febrezed
  4. Febrezes
  5. Febrezing
  6. febricant
  7. febricants
  8. febricide
  9. febricitant
  10. febricitants
  11. febricities

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