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HYPERPYREXIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hyperpyrexia mean?
• HYPERPYREXIA (noun)
The noun HYPERPYREXIA has 1 sense:
1. extremely high fever (especially in children)
Familiarity information: HYPERPYREXIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extremely high fever (especially in children)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("hyperpyrexia" is a kind of...):
hyperthermia; hyperthermy (abnormally high body temperature; sometimes induced (as in treating some forms of cancer))
febricity; febrility; fever; feverishness; pyrexia (a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection)
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