defervescence

See also: défervescence

English

From Latin defervescere (“to grow cool”).

defervescence (countable and uncountable, plural defervescences)

The departure or subsiding of a fever.
- 2003, Cartmell et al., J Physiol. 2003;549.2:653–664:
  Endogenous interleukin-10 is required for the defervescence of fever evoked by local lipopolysaccharide-induced and Staphylococcus aureus-induced inflammation in rats.
- 2007, Management of Fever in Infants University of Chicago: Pediatric Chief Residents' Website, online Apr. 2007:
  ...alternation of Tylenol and Motrin has not been proven to provide faster defervescence.

defervescence, in Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Random House, Inc. 2001. Page 523. ISBN 037572026.
defervescence at Merriam-Webster online.

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