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What does hyperpyrexia mean?

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Noun
  1. (medicine) An excessive and unusual elevation of set body temperature greater than or equal to 41°C (105.8°F), or extremely high fever.
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For example, a patient taking neuroleptics who relapses to stimulant medications is at risk of hyperpyrexia.
A fatal issue is most frequently observed in connection with hyperpyrexia alone, or in combination with delirium or coma.
Hypertensive crises, hyperactivity, hyperpyrexia, spasticity, severe convulsions or coma, and death have been reported in patients receiving such combinations.
In addition, the concomitant use of a codeine-containing product and monoamine oxidase inhibitors can occasionally result in symptoms such as hyperpyrexia, arrhythmia, myoclonus or coma.
Clinical manifestations of NMS are hyperpyrexia, muscle rigidity, altered mental status and evidence of autonomic instability.
A variety of neurological toxic effects and malignant hyperpyrexia can occur, sometimes with fatal results.

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