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pyrexiae

pyrexiae is the plural of pyrexia.

Meaning of pyrexia

Noun

pyrexia (countable and uncountable, plural pyrexias or pyrexiae)

  1. Fever.
    • The least defined pyrexiae were the continued fevers, divided mainly into typhus, enteric (typhoid) and relapsing.1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 253
  2. Trench fever.

Questions about pyrexiae

What is pyrexiae the plural of?
Pyrexiae is the plural of pyrexia.

Words near pyrexiae in the dictionary

  1. pyretogenous
  2. pyretology
  3. pyretotherapy
  4. pyrex
  5. pyrexia
  6. pyrexiae
  7. pyrexial
  8. pyrexias
  9. pyrexic
  10. pyrexical
  11. pyrgeometer

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