artificial fever
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artificial fever — noun : fever therapy * * * artificial fever, fever produced artificially to kill bacteria … Useful english dictionary
Fever — Although a fever technically is any body temperature above the normal of 98.6 degrees F. (37 degrees C.), in practice a person is usually not considered to have a significant fever until the temperature is above 100.4 degrees F (38 degrees C.).… … Medical dictionary
Fever therapy — Using abnormal elevations in body temperature as a tool to treat disease. This was done in the past by deliberately raising the patient s temperature to cause fever. Fever therapy was pioneered by the Austrian neuropsychiatrist Julius Wagner von… … Medical dictionary
fever therapy — noun : a treatment of disease by fever induced by various artificial means * * * Med. therapy by means of an artificially induced fever. [1920 25] * * * fever therapy noun Cure by inducement of fever • • • Main Entry: ↑fever … Useful english dictionary
Dengue fever — For other uses, see Dengue fever (disambiguation). Dengue fever Classification and external resources The typical rash seen in dengue fever … Wikipedia
White Light Fever — Infobox Television episode Title = White Light Fever Series = The Outer Limits Caption = Harlan Hawkes (William Hickey) standing in from of the blue light . Season = 1 Episode = 6 Airdate = 21 April, 1995 Production = 6 Writer = David Kemper… … Wikipedia
Temporal Fever — is an artificial disease or process created in the Herbie Brennen novel Faerie Lord .OriginsThe disease was first found in a little faerie girl called Jalindra who it was originally thought to have horse sniffles a common disease among the… … Wikipedia
inductothermy — Artificial fever production by means of electromagnetic induction. [induction + G. therme, heat] * * * in·duc·to·ther·my in dək tə .thər mē n, pl mies fever therapy by means of an electromagnetic induction field with the body or a part of it… … Medical dictionary
Pyrotherapy — (artificial fever, therapeutic fever) is a method of treatment by raising the body temperature or sustaining an elevated body temperature (caused by a fever). In general, the body temperature was maintained at 41° Celsius.[1] Many diseases were… … Wikipedia
pyretotherapy — 1. Obsolete synonym for pyrotherapy. 2. Treatment of fever. SYN: artificial fever, induced fever. [pyreto + G. therapeia, treatment] * * * pyr·e·to·ther·a·py .pir ə tō ther ə pē, .pī(ə)r ; pī .ret ō n, pl pies … Medical dictionary
