What Does Patient Defervesced Meaning?

(def'ĕr-ves'ents), Falling of an elevated temperature; abatement of fever.

What happens during Defervescence?

Defervescence is often very rapid, the temperature falling five or six degrees in the course of twelve hours. Its onset is characterized by a second marked but gradually developed defervescence. Defervescence occurs with a trifling eruption of maculo-papules, which in two days have wellnigh completely disappeared.

What does defervesce mean?

Definitions of defervesce. verb. experience an abatement of a fever. type of: change. undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.