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What is the medical terminology of an agent suppressing fever?
Antipyretics are either drugs or herbs that are used to reduce a fever.
Meaning of multiple codes for medical terminology?
All medical diagnosis have a code...a number that is assigned to it used for billing and documentation purposes. For example there is a code for heart attack, a code for a broken arm, a code for fever and so forth.
What is the medical term meaning high-grade fever?
Hyperthermia
What is the medical term meaning high grade fever?
Hyperthermia
What is the medical term meaning high body temperature?
Fever, pyrexia, hyperthermia (nouns), febrile (adjective).
What is an extremely high fever called?
Hyperthermia is the medical term meaning very high fever. Its opposite is hypothermia.
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.)
What is the medical term meaning kissing disease?
Mononucleosis, also called glandular fever.
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 meaning fever and sweaty skin?
The word febrile refers to having a fever and diaphoresis means sweaty skin, or excess sweating
What is the medical term meaning absence of disease?
Afebrile. A- means without. Febr- is the prefix in medicine that means fever, from Latin. Febrile means there is a fever or something related to fever. A similar word from the Greek uses the prefix, pyr-, meaning fire, and is pyrexia (fever).
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.
