Defervesce

Quick meaning: Defervesce is a verb meaning (intransitive, medicine) To experience an abatement or resolution of fever.

Meaning

(intransitive, medicine) To experience an abatement or resolution of fever.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, figuratively) To become less agitated; to cool down.

Example Sentences

The symptoms gradually improved until, on the fifth day from her delivery, I was pleased to find the erysipelas rapidly defervescing, the lochia natural, no subinvolution of the uterus, nor abdominal tenderness.

Instead, I was still feeling ok after the previous day spent mainly in the Maldivian waters diving and snorkeling, and I had booked for myself two other morning scuba dives on Tuesday. […] Andrea passed the opportunity for these dives today, resting and defervescing from the tour-de-force of the day before.

[W]e find that the duration and succession of the febrile phenomena constitute five principal groups. […] 2. Fevers which are essentially continuous in their course (continued fevers), which exhibit but slight daily differences of temperature during their fastigium or acme, and defervesce rapidly (by crisis).

[T]he angry are gone out of power; that is, out of counsel, out of reason, out of mind; for the power of these ought to control the whole soul. […] [L]et them be implored and entreated, if they have some means of revenge, that they will defer it to another time, until anger shall have defervesced. But to defervesce, certainly implies that heated ebullition of mind which has risen in revolt against reason.

Word Forms

• defervesces
• defervescing
• defervesced

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lyse, break, defuze, effervesce, devacuate, disinflame.

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