febricant

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adjective

Causing fever.

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Meanings

adjective
  1. archaicCausing fever.
nounfebricant (plural febricants)

plural febricants

  1. archaicA patient who has a fever.

    Gavaret mathematically demonstrated in 1839 the increase of body-heat when the febricant shivers with cold, and its precedence of some hours before the chill, by which signs the therapeutist is warned in time to administer the antidote.

    1876, Edward Seguin, Medical Thermometry and Human Temperature, page 200
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Chicago

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