GROUP 36
FEBRIS
ET
INFLAMMATIO
Leyla Al Suwaidi and Ludovica Gaion
Fever
Febris, is (f): "fever"
Greek corresponding root: "pyret-" = "fire"
Febris is the latin term referring to fever. Its original meaning was used as “burning” or
“shaking”.
In medical terminology, this term can be often followed by an adjective, indicating either
a fever that typically accompanies a disease, or its stage of progression.
E.g. "Febris flava" means yellow fever; "febris continua" means steady fever.
Another Latin term used to indicate a symptom of a disease is “calor”, wich means "heat".
Can you tell the greek corresponding noun? (A tip! What do you use to measure fever?
"Mètros" in greek means “measure”…).
Clinical terms: if your body temperature is lower than the normal (37°), the clinical term
used is “hypothermia”. What’s the term for body temperature above the normal value?
Body temperature
states
Hypothermia, ae (f): ........................
Subfebris, is (f): ................................
Subfebrilis, e: ...................................
Hyperpyrexia, ae (f):........................
Knowing that the prefixes "hypo-" and "sub-" mean "below" and "hyper-" means
"over", can you tell the meaning of these words?
Proceeding in waves
In the morning
Steady, continuous
Lasting only one day
Oscillating
Returning
Proceeding in two waves
Feverous states alternating with non-feverous
states
Continua
Ephemera
Intermittens
Inversa
Recurrens
Remittens
Undulans
Biphasica/dromedaria
Types of fevers according to its progression
Match the latin terms with the corresponding English ones
FEBRIS + = ................. FEBRIS + = .................
Adjectives used to describe the stage of progression of the fever and fever
accompanying a particular disease:
Latin names of these types of fever are created by "febris" + the adjective related to the organ/structure hit by the
disease, or related to some characteristics of the fever itself.
E.g. Febris tertia, quartana, quintana, quotidiana: fever repeting itself every three/four/five days,
typical of malaria
Febris puerperalis: childbed fever, occuring during puerperium
Febris reumatica: an inflammatory disease involving heart, joints, etc.
typical of paleness yellow fever
More types of fever...
FEBRIS +
FEBRIS +
FEBRIS +
FEBRIS +
= .......................
= ......................
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typhoid fever fever accompanying herpetic disease
fever accompanying mononucleosis fever accompanying inflammation of mammary gland
INFLAMMATIONS
The english term "inflammation" comes from the latin term "inflammatio", which
literally means "fire" and figuratively "to burn inside".
Inflammatio, onis (f) is rarely used. The greek word PHLEGMONE is preferred.
Phlegmone comes from the greek verb "phlego", which means "I burn"
BE CAREFUL! Phlegm in english does not mean inflammation. Do you know what this
term means?
Inflammatio vs. Phlegmone
In latin, to describe the inflammation of a structure, organ or tissue, you have to:
Remember the greek/latin noun referring to the structure, tissue or organ being infected: for
example, if you want to say "inflammation of the appendix", the latin word to remember is
"appendix"; 
Remember the genitive of the word: "appendicis". Now, from the stem, remove the suffix:
"appendic-"
Add the suffix used for inflamations, "-itis": "appendicitis".
Be careful, because there are few exceptions that use the suffix -ia:
pneumonia, ophtalmia, onychia.
Can you tell which of the above mentioned structures are inflamed?
Can you name these types of inflammation? (A tip! Roots for some of these
structures have  greek origin...)
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