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pyrrhexia

pyrrhexia is the alternative spelling 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 pyrrhexia

What is pyrrhexia the alternative spelling of?
Pyrrhexia is the alternative spelling of pyrexia.

Words near pyrrhexia in the dictionary

  1. pyrraline
  2. pyrrazolooxadiazepine
  3. pyrrazolooxadiazepines
  4. pyrrh-
  5. Pyrrha
  6. pyrrhexia
  7. pyrrhic
  8. pyrrhic victories
  9. pyrrhic victory
  10. pyrrhical
  11. pyrrhichius

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