Usually means: Extremely high, dangerous body temperature.
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  7. hyperpyrexia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  1. hyperpyrexia: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (hyperpyrexia)

▸ noun:  (medicine) An excessive and unusual elevation of set body temperature greater than or equal to 41°C (105.8°F), or extremely high fever.

Similar:
pyrexia, hypopyrexia, hyperthermia, apyrexia, fever, pseudofever, pyrogenesis, pituitous fever, temperature, febrility, more...

Opposite:
hypothermia

Phrases:
malignant hyperpyrexia, heat hyperpyrexia, more...

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Similar:
pyrexia, hypopyrexia, hyperthermia, apyrexia, fever, pseudofever, pyrogenesis, pituitous fever, temperature, febrility, more...

Opposite:
hypothermia

Phrases:
malignant hyperpyrexia, heat hyperpyrexia, more...



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