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febricants

febricants is the plural of febricant.

Meaning of febricant

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

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Questions about febricants

What is febricants the plural of?
Febricants is the plural of febricant.

Words near febricants in the dictionary

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

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