Definitions
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- noun abnormally high body temperature; sometimes induced (as in treating some forms of cancer)
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Besides killing cancer cells, hyperthermy reduced the tolerance of cancer cells to chemotherapy.
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Lastly, the anaphylactic reaction is on the whole one of hypothermy, while the tuberculin injection on tuberculous subjects always causes hyperthermy.
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At a meeting of the Association of American Physicians in 1895, Jacobi of New York reported a case of hyperthermy reaching 148o F.
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At a meeting of the Association of American Physicians in 1895, Jacobi of New York reported a case of hyperthermy reaching 148 degrees F.
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