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Fever

Medical Definition: An abnormal elevation of body temperature, usually as a result of a pathologic process.
Guide Notes: /ther = treatment of FEVER: differentiate from FEVER THERAPY see HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED ( = high body temp induced to treat dis); /chem ind: consider also HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED or PYROGENS
Fever Categories.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Fever of Unknown Origin - Fever in which the etiology cannot be ascertained.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Sweating Sickness - A clinical condition characterized by fever and profuse sweating and associated with high mortality. It occurred in epidemic form five times in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in England, first in 1485 and last in 1551, specially during the summer and early autumn, attacking the relatively affluent adult male population. The etiology was unknown.

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