Question

what is the difference between pyremia and pyrexia

Answer 1

Pyrexia is a fancy medical term for fever. Febrile describes a patient who has a fever (or has pyrexia, if you want to be fancy), so essentially they're the same thing. Hyperthermia also means elevated temperature, but it implies that it has an exogenous source. Pyrexia is your body's natural response to infection or the inflammatory process; hyperthermia suggests that the rise in body temp is caused by something OTHER than the body's natural inflammatory process.