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afebrile

If you're ever feeling sick but not running a fever, then you're afebrile, meaning that you're fever free!

Doctors and medical professionals use the term afebrile to describe someone who isn’t running a fever, even if they have other symptoms. The word comes from the Latin a-, meaning "without," and febris, meaning "fever." It’s a good sign when someone becomes afebrile after taking medicine because it means that the treatment is working.

Definitions of afebrile
  1. adjective
    having no fever
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    antonyms:
    febrile
    of or relating to or characterized by fever
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