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Abstract
Fever is the raising of body temperature above the normal daily variation. In practice, this is -38°C (rectal or tympanic),37.5°C (oral) or 37.2°C (axillary). It is part of a systemic inflammatory response by the immune system to infection.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 25182924 DOI: 10.7748/ns.29.1.61.s51
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nurs Stand ISSN: 0029-6570