febrile illness
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffebrileandillness
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febrile
adjective
uk/ˈfiː.braɪl/us/ˈfeb.rɪl/
literary
extremely active, or too excited, imaginative, ...
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illness
noun
uk/ˈɪl.nəs/us/ˈɪl.nəs/
a disease of the body ...
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(Definition offebrileandillnessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoffebrile illness
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In most patients the infection is asymptomatic or presented as a nonspecificfebrileillness; encephalitis may develop instead in more severe cases.
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We report here a child with left ventricular myxoma who presented with a prolongedfebrileillness.
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Most doctors would agree that a patient with an acutefebrileillnessshould have a blood culture performed on admission to hospital.
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Eighteen students hadfebrileillnessduring the outbreak period and nine of them showed seroconversion or a four-fold rise in titre in their convalescent sample.
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What is certain is that he had a debilitatingfebrileillnesswith weight loss, chest symptoms and subsequent scarring in the lung.
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Many of the same enteroviruses associated with aseptic meningitis are known to cause non-specificfebrileillnessin children.
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Q fever is often a severefebrileillnessassociated with prominent headaches, constitutional symptoms and drenching sweats.
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For example, it is not uncommon for young children to have a convulsion while suffering from afebrileillness.
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The symptoms are consistent with entericfebrileillnessand the illness appears to be contagious.
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Symptoms are most often exercise-induced, but fasting, a high-fat diet, exposure to cold temperature, or infection (especiallyfebrileillness) can also provoke this metabolic myopathy.
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Onset typically occurs between one or two weeks after exposure to the virus and is followed by a biphasicfebrileillness.
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The virus circulates among rodents and vector mosquitoes and sometimes infects humans, causing afebrileillnesswith occasional neurological manifestations.
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Emotional stress, sleep deprivation, sleep itself, heat stress, alcohol andfebrileillnessare examples of precipitants cited by patients with epilepsy.
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A history of animal contact is pivotal; in endemic area, it should be in the diagnosis of any nonspecificfebrileillness.
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The virus has also been isolated from humans with febrile illnesses, from birds (ibis and pigeons) and ticks.
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This has resulted in earlier presentation for assessment and treatment of febrile illnesses.
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In remote communities pneumonia and other febrile illnesses are often treated with daily parenteral antibiotics without cultures.
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It contains micronutrients including zinc and iron which are bioavailable (34;39), and effective against diarrhea and febrile illnesses (30), and anemia (40).
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