Usually means: Elevated body temperature; commonly fever.
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  1. pyrexia: Merriam-Webster
  2. pyrexia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pyrexia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pyrexia: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pyrexia: Vocabulary.com
  6. pyrexia: Wordnik
  7. pyrexia: Wiktionary
  8. pyrexia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. pyrexia: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. pyrexia: Dictionary.com
  11. Pyrexia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Pyrexia: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. pyrexia: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. pyrexia: Rhymezone
  15. Pyrexia: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. pyrexia: FreeDictionary.org
  17. pyrexia: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. pyrexia: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. pyrexia: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -pyrexia: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pyrexia: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pyrexia: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. pyrexia: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  5. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  6. -pyrexia, pyrexia: Medical dictionary
  7. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  8. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  9. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See pyrexial as well.)

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noun:  (medicine) Fever.
noun:  (medicine) Trench fever.

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