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pyrexias

pyrexias 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 pyrexias

What is pyrexias the plural of?
Pyrexias is the plural of pyrexia.

Words near pyrexias in the dictionary

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

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