different between fever vs tachycardia

English

Alternative forms

• feaver, fevre (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

From Middle English fever, fevere, from Old English fefer, fefor (“fever”), from Latin febris (“a fever”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eg??- (“to burn”). Replaced native Old English hriþ (“fever”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Fiewer, German Fieber, Danish feber, Swedish feber.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?fi?v?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fiv?/
• Rhymes: -i?v?(?)
• Hyphenation: fe?ver

Noun

fever (countable and uncountable, plural fevers)

1. A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.

   "I have a fever. I think I've the flu."

2. (usually in combination with one or more preceding words) Any of various diseases.

   scarlet fever

3. A state of excitement or anxiety.
4. (neologism) A group of stingrays.

Synonyms

• (higher than normal body temperature): high temperature, pyrexia (medical term), temperature
• (state of excitement): excitation, excitement, passion

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Related terms

• fervent
• fervid
• fervor

Translations

See also

• hyperthermia

References

• fever on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

fever (third-person singular simple present fevers, present participle fevering, simple past and past participle fevered)

1. To put into a fever; to affect with fever.

   a fevered lip
2. To become fevered.

Further reading

• fever in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fever in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• fevre

English

Etymology

From New Latin tachycardia, from Ancient Greek ????? (takhús, “swift”) + ?????? (kardía, “heart”), analysable as tachy- +? -cardia; compare French tachycardie.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tæ.k??k??(?).di.?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /tæ.k??k???.di.?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)di?
• Hyphenation: ta?chy?car?dia

Noun

tachycardia (countable and uncountable, plural tachycardias)

1. A rapid resting heart rate, especially one above 100 beats per minute. [from 19th c.]

   Synonym: tachyrhythmia

   Antonym: bradycardia

Derived terms

• tachycardiac
• tachycardic

Translations

References

Further reading

• tachycardia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “tachycardia” in Colin McIntosh, editor, Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 4th edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, ?ISBN; reproduced on the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, retrieved 14 February 2017.
• “tachycardia” in the Collins English Dictionary, retrieved 14 February 2017
• “tachycardia” in Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd rev. and updated edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, ?ISBN; reproduced on Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, retrieved 14 February 2017.
• “tachycardia”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
• “tachycardia”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.