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Another term for decompression sickness?
The Bends.
What is another term for schistosomiasis?
Schistosomiasis, also known as bilharziasis or snail fever
What is another term for heat-related illnesses or having a body temperature that is too high?
Hyperthermia/Fever
What is the medical term meaning agent that reduces fever?
Antipyretic is the medical term for medications to reduce fever. pyr- is from Greek meaning fire. Another medical term referring to things that reduce fever is febricide. febr- is from Latin for fire or heat; cide is to eliminate, reduce or extinguish (as in pesticide, herbicide, germicide, etc.)
Where did the term spring fever come from?
I recently saw an old movie about the early 1900's. In the movie, Grandma called sickness in the Spring, Spring fever: whereby, children died after a long cold winter without vegetables. They were missing nutrients from their diets. Makes sense.
Social sickness is also called what?
Social sickness is also often known as a metal illness or disorder. The term social sickness however is not a medical term, but it used casually to label certain disorders.
What is the medical term meaning feverish?
An antipyretic is a drug that stops or prevents fever. pyr- comes from Greek for fire. Febricide is also used to refer things that "kill" or reduce a fever. Febr- is from Latin for fire or heat.
What is the medical term for the oral temperature of 100.8?
uh, fever? Generally a fever; in medical speak a patient with a fever is pyrexic- pyrexia is a fever.
What is the medical term for abnormally high fever?
A body temperature that is higher than average due to illness or inflammation is known as a fever.
What is a fever victim?
A fever victim is someone who is suffering from a, possibly longterm, fever. Usually the term 'fever victim' is reserved for those who have fever's of such high temperatures that there is a possibility of brain damage.
What is the scientific name for a fever?
The term is pyrexia.
Where did maleria originate?
Malaria was linked with poisonous vapours of swamps or stagnant water on the ground since time immemorial. This probable relationship was so firmly established that it gave the two most frequently used names to the disease mal'aria, later shortened to one word malaria, and paludisme. The term malaria (from the Italian mala "bad" and aria "air") was used by the Italians to describe the cause of intermittent fevers associated with exposure to marsh air or miasma. The word was introduced to English by Horace Walpole, who wrote in 1740 about a "horrid thing called mal'aria, that comes to Rome every summer and kills one." The term malaria, without the apostrophe, evolved into the name of the disease only in the 20th century. Up to that point the various intermittent fevers had been called jungle fever, marsh fever, paludal fever, or swamp fever.
