Path. [ad. mod.L. apyrexia (also used), a. Gr. ἀπυρεξία, f. ἀ priv. + πυρέσσ-ειν to be feverish. Cf. F. apyrexie.] The period of intermission in a fever.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Apyrexie, the remitting of a Fever, or the shaking in the course of an ague.
1742. Bailey, Apyrexy.
1876. trans. Wagner’s Gen. Pathol., 16. The normal interval in a febrile disease is denominated Apyrexia.
