Which term means fever?

Which term means fever?

• A. Febrile
• B. Syncope
• C. Sepsis
• D. Ecchymosis

Answer: (A)

Fever is described in medical terms as febrile. The word febrile means having fever or feverish, and it’s commonly used in clinical notes to indicate a patient with an elevated temperature. You’ll also see afebrile to mean without fever. The other terms refer to different ideas: syncope is a fainting spell caused by reduced blood flow to the brain; sepsis is a dangerous body-wide response to infection (it may involve fever but is not the term for fever itself); ecchymosis is a bruise-like spot resulting from bleeding under the skin. So febrile is the term that specifically denotes fever.

Fever is described in medical terms as febrile. The word febrile means having fever or feverish, and it’s commonly used in clinical notes to indicate a patient with an elevated temperature. You’ll also see afebrile to mean without fever. The other terms refer to different ideas: syncope is a fainting spell caused by reduced blood flow to the brain; sepsis is a dangerous body-wide response to infection (it may involve fever but is not the term for fever itself); ecchymosis is a bruise-like spot resulting from bleeding under the skin. So febrile is the term that specifically denotes fever.