defervesce

Thân thiện

The patient's temperature begins to defervesce overnight.

Definition

Verb: 1. To experience an abatement of a fever; to lose or have one's fever subside. This is a medical term describing the process where a fever breaks and body temperature returns to normal.

Usage

The verb "defervesce" is used to describe the specific medical event of a fever ending. It is an intransitive verb, meaning it does not take a direct object. The subject is the person or patient whose fever is subsiding. * The patient is expected to defervesce within 24 hours of starting the antibiotic. * After three days of high temperature, she finally began to defervesce.

Advanced Usage

• Medical/Clinical Context: The term is almost exclusively used in formal medical writing, clinical notes, or scientific discussions. It is not common in everyday conversation.
  • The clinical trial noted that 90% of participants defervesced after the first dose.

Variants and Related Words

• Defervescence (noun): The period or process during which a fever is subsiding.
  • The patient's defervescence was accompanied by profuse sweating.

Synonyms

• Cool down (informal, general)
• Have one's fever break (descriptive phrase)
• Become afebrile (medical term meaning "to become without fever")

Antonyms

• Febrile (adjective: having a fever)
• Develop a fever
• Spike a fever

Học thuật

Verb

1. experience an abatement of a fever