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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

apirexia

Pronunciation / Transliteration: a-pi-ɾe-ˈksi-ɐ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Apyrexia/ˌeɪ.paɪˈrɛk.si.ə/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #45000 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O paciente permaneceu em apirexia durante a noite."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The absence or intermission of a fever; a state of normal body temperature during an illness that typically causes fever.

    "During the period of apyrexia, the patient felt significantly more comfortable and was able to eat."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Greek prefix 'a-' meaning 'without', combined with 'pyreksia' (fever), originating from 'pyrex', meaning 'feverish heat'. It entered modern medical English in the 19th century to denote the absence or intermission of a fever.

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