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pyrogenic

Definition of pyrogenic

adjective

  • 1 Medicine inducing fever: a pyrogenic response follows intravenous injection of endotoxin
  • 2caused or produced by combustion or the application of heat: pyrogenic factors affecting the fluctuation of the forest-savannah boundary

Derivatives

pyrogenicity

noun

pyrogenic in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of pyrogenic in the US English dictionary
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