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defervescence|diːfəˈvɛsəns|
[f. L. dēfervēscent-em defervescent: see -ence.]
1. Cooling down; abatement of heat.
1721Bailey, Defervescence, a growing cool, an abating. 1775in Ash. Hence in mod. Dicts.
2. Path. The decrease of bodily temperature which accompanies the abatement of fever or feverish symptoms; the period of this decrease.
(Introduced in German (defervescenz) by Wunderlich.)
1866Braithwaite Retrospect of Med. LIII. 14 The height of the fever was reached on December 31st..after this defervescence went on gradually. 1875H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 145 It is evident that..in some of these cases of Wunderlich's the drug was given about the time natural defervescence would be expected to occur. 1877Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 78 Occasionally defervescence is quite irregular in its progress. |