Usually means: Elevated body temperature; having fever.
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  1. pyrexic: Merriam-Webster
  2. pyrexic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pyrexic: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pyrexic: Wordnik
  5. pyrexic: Wiktionary
  6. pyrexic: Dictionary.com
  7. Pyrexic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. pyrexic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pyrexic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pyrexic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. pyrexic: Medical dictionary

(Note: See pyrexia as well.)

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▸ adjective:  (rare) feverish, pyretic

Similar:
pyrectic, aguey, hyperphoretic, subfebrile, phthisical, paratyphoidal, erythrocythaemic, erythraemic, hypercholeretic, hyperuraemic, more...

Opposite:
afebrile, apyretic, normothermic

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Similar:
pyrectic, aguey, hyperphoretic, subfebrile, phthisical, paratyphoidal, erythrocythaemic, erythraemic, hypercholeretic, hyperuraemic, more...

Opposite:
afebrile, apyretic, normothermic



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