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Answer for the clue "Rise in body temper-ature, suggesting infection ", 12 letters:
feverishness

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Word definitions for feverishness in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality of being feverish

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection [syn: fever , febrility , febricity , pyrexia ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Feverish \Fe"ver*ish\, a. Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish. Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms. ...

Usage examples of feverishness.

We always love to touch a cat, but only the insensitive can uniformly welcome the frantic and humid nuzzlings and pawings of a dusty and perhaps not inodorous canine which leaps and fusses and writhes about in awkward feverishness for no particular reason save that blind nerve-centres have been spurred by certain meaningless stimuli.

When taken by provers in actual toxic doses the tincture, or the fresh juice, has induced sore throat, feverishness, and a dry, red, hot skin, just as if symptomatic of scarlet fever.

It will produce life-like imitations of the dilatations of dyspepsia, the sicknesses of pregnancy, the broken rhythm of the cardiac, the feverishness of the consumptive.

Though most of the punctures had closed, the sap seemed to ease his feverishness but Lunzie hoped they could get more to last through the night.