Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "fever" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Causes

drowsiness headache higher body temperature increase in body temperature

Defined As

body's way of fighting disease

Derived Terms

7-day fever African swine fever virus Arab fever Bieber fever Botany Bay fever Bulam fever Charcot intermittent fever Charcot's intermittent fever I have a fever Indian fever Japanese fever Karelian fever Katayama's fever Liszt fever Marburg fever Marburg hemorrhagic fever Miana fever Ohara's fever Persian relapsing fever Pfeiffer's glandular fever Rhodesian redwater fever Rift Valley fever Rocky Mountain fever Rocky Mountain spotted fever San Joaquin Valley fever San Joaquin fever Spanish fever antifever baby fever bovine ephemeral fever bovine infectious petechial fever bovine malignant catarrhal fever bovine petechial fever brain fever brain-fever brain-fever bird buck fever camp fever cat scratch fever cedar fever drain fever enfever familial Mediterranean fever fever bush fever clinic fever coat fever dream fever fog fever pitch fever swamp fever tea fever trap fever-bark fever-blister fever-chart fever-cooling fever-fly fever-heat fever-hectic fever-lurdan fever-lurden fever-lurgan fever-lurk fever-nut fever-pitched fever-powder fever-ridden fever-sick fever-sore fever-swamp fever-trap fever-tree fever-twig fever-weakened fever-weed fever-wood feverable fevered feveret feverish feverless feverlike feverly feverous feverroot feversome feverweed feverwort fevery forest fever tree gaol-fever gate fever go fever gold fever hay fever hay feverite hay-fever hayfever hog fever hog-fever hospital fever jail fever jungle fever ladies' fever lazaret fever low-grade fever lunar hay fever maculated fever malignant catarrhal fever maple fever marsh fever milk fever miniature scarlet fever monkey fever pageant fever pencil fever pink-fever prison fever pseudofever putrid fever quintan fever rash fever rose fever severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome ship fever ship-fever stage fever summit fever sun-fever swine fever terai fever thunder fever tramp fever white fever white line fever

Distinct From

cold

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

excitation excitement fervor fervour inflammation symptom

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

Aden fever African Coast fever Asian fever Assam fever Astrakhan fever Bay fever Boulogne fever Brazilian purpuric fever Bullis fever Bunyamwera fever Burdwan fever Bwamba fever California fever California valley fever Cape Horn fever Carrión's fever Carter's fever Chagres fever Charcot's fever Choix fever Congo red fever Congolian red fever Crimean fever Cyprus fever Dum Dum fever Dutch type periodic fever East Coast fever Ebola fever Ebola virus fever Elokomin fluke fever English fever Fort Bragg fever Gambian fever Gibraltar fever Hankow fever Hasami fever Haverhill fever Ilheus fever Jaccoud's dissociated fever Japanese flood fever Japanese river fever Junin fever Katayama fever Kedani fever Kenya fever Kew Gardens fever Kinkiang fever Korin fever Lassa fever Lazaret fever Lhasa fever Lombard fever Lone Star fever Lábrea fever Lábrea's black fever Malta fever Manchurian fever Marseilles fever Mediterranean coast fever Mediterranean erythematous fever Mediterranean exanthematous fever Mediterranean fever Mediterranean spotted fever Meuse fever Mexican fever Mianeh fever Monday fever Mossman fever Murchison-Pel-Ebstein fever Murchison-Sanderson fever Neapolitan fever Oropouche fever Oroya fever Panama fever Pel-Ebstein fever Pomona fever Pontiac fever Potomac fever Potomac horse fever Pym fever Pym's fever Q fever Rhodesian fever Rock fever Roman fever Ross River fever Salinem fever Santa Marta fever Schamberg fever Schottmüller's fever Sennetsu fever Shar Pei fever Sindbis fever Songo fever São Paulo fever Texas cattle fever Texas fever Tobia fever Wesselsbron fever West African fever West African hemorrhagic fever West Nile fever Whitmore's fever Wolhynia fever Zika fever abortus fever absorption fever acclimating fever adynamic fever aestivoautumnal fever algid pernicious fever aphthous fever ardent fever arthropod-borne fever artificial fever aseptic fever ataxic fever autumn fever barrel fever beaver fever benign tertian fever biduoterian fever biliary fever bilious fever black fever black fly fever blackwater fever blue fever blue-tile fever bouquet fever boutonneuse fever bovine epizootic fever brain fever brass founder's fever brassfounder's fever breakbone fever buck fever bullous fever cabin fever cachectic fever cachexial fever camp fever cane-cutter fever cane-field fever canefield fever canicola fever cat fever cat-bite fever cat-scratch fever catarrhal fever catheter fever central fever cerebro-spinal fever cerebrospinal fever channel fever chikungunya fever childbed fever childbirth fever complicate fever congestive fever continued fever continuous fever cotton fever cotton-mill fever country fever dance fever dandy fever date fever deer fly fever dehydration fever dengue fever desert fever diary fever digestive fever diphasic milk fever disfever dock fever double quotidian fever drug fever duck fever dumdum fever elephantoid fever enteric fever entericoid fever entrance fever ephemeral fever epimastical fever eruptive fever essential fever estivoautumnal fever exanthematous fever exsiccation fever falciparum fever familial Hibernian fever familial periodic fever famine fever farrowing fever fatigue fever field fever five-day fever flood fever fog fever food fever foundryman's fever gaol fever gastric fever glandular fever gold fever grain fever green fever haematuric bilious fever haemoglobinuric fever haemorrhagic fever harvest fever hay fever hectic fever hematuric bilious fever hemoglobinuric fever hemorrhagic fever hempen fever hepatic intermittent fever herpetic fever horse sickness fever hospital fever humidifier fever inanition fever induced fever inflammatory fever intermittent fever inundation fever island fever jail fever jungle fever jungle yellow fever land fever laurel fever lechuguilla fever low grade fever lung fever malarial catarrhal fever malarial fever malignant tertian fever marsh fever meningotyphoid fever metal fume fever miliary fever milk fever mill fever monoleptic fever mountain fever mud fever mumu fever nanukayami fever nervous fever nine mile fever nodal fever o'nyong-nyong fever paludal fever papataci fever papatasi fever pappataci fever papular fever paratyphoid fever parenteric fever parrot fever parturient fever periodic fever petechial fever pharyngoconjunctival fever phlebotomus fever pinta fever pituitous fever polka fever polyleptic fever polymer fume fever pretibial fever prison fever prison fever typhus protein fever puerperal fever puking fever pukka fever purple fever putrid fever pyogenic fever query fever rabbit fever rat fever rat-bite fever ratbite fever recrudescent typhus fever recurrent fever recurring fever red fever redwater fever relapsing fever remittent fever rheumatic fever rice-field fever rose fever rotanny fever run a fever sakushu fever salt fever sand-fly fever sandfly fever scarlet fever secondary fever septic fever shin bone fever ship fever shipping fever shoddy fever slime fever slow fever smelter's fever snail fever solar fever spelter's fever spirillary fever spirillum fever splenic fever spotted fever spottled fever spring fever steroid fever sthenic fever stockyards fever stranger's fever streptobacillary fever summer fever sun fever suppurative fever surgical fever swamp fever swine fever symptomatic fever syphilitic fever therapeutic fever thermic fever thirst fever three-day fever threshing fever tick fever tick-bite fever tick-borne fever tomato fever traumatic fever trench fever trypanosome fever tsutsugamushi fever typhoid fever typhus fever undifferentiated type fever undulant fever undulating fever upgrade fever urethral fever urinary fever urticarial fever uveoparotid fever valley fever verruga fever vivax fever war fever winter fever womb fever worm fever wound fever yellow fever zinc fume fever

Type Of (IsA)

anticipation illness physiological process sign of sickness symptom symptom of many illnesses

Part Of

flu sickness

Related Terms

Fever River Foshay-Mollaret cat-scratch fever syndrome febrile feed a cold, starve a fever fervent fervid fervor fever ague fever and ague fever blister fever bush fever grass fever lent fever of unknown origin fever pitch fever powder fever ring fever root fever sore fever therapy fever thermometer fever treatment fever tree fever twig hyperthermia

Related Terms

ailment anxiety body temperature chills chills and colds colds flu condition degrees disease disease symptom elevated elevated temperature excitement fervent fervid fervor flu high high temperature hot hot illness hot temperature human human temperature hyperthermia illness illness symptom mammal medical medical condition person red rising rising temperature sick sick temperature sickness stingray symptom temperature temperature illness when when sick

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