0 extremely active, or too excited, imaginative, or emotional: --
He has a febrile imagination.
febrile convulsions
Most doctors would agree that a patient with an acute febrile illness should have a blood culture performed on admission to hospital.
I was internally worried about what might be wrong, and felt febrile-it was difficult to listen attentively to my therapy patients.
Patient 1 was admitted in a febrile comatose state of unexplained origin.
These four-way tensions gave these regimes their characteristic blend of febrile activism and shapelessness.
Once again, an appropriate ritual to assuage febrile popular sentiment had to be devised.
The virus has also been isolated from humans with febrile illnesses, from birds (ibis and pigeons) and ticks.
We report here a child with left ventricular myxoma who presented with a prolonged febrile illness.
Five months later she again became febrile and had a vasculitic skin rash which responded to antibiotic therapy.
