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defervescency (medicine)


defervescency


1. A subsiding from a state of ebullition; loss of heat; lukewarmness. "A defervescency in holy actions." (Jer. Taylor)

2. <medicine> The subsidence of a febrile process; as, the stage of defervescence in pneumonia.

Origin: L. Defervescere to grow cool.

Source: Websters Dictionary