1.
fever caused by illness; fever from disease
An elevated body temperature resulting from illness or disease. Distinguished from fever caused by external factors like heat exhaustion.
病熱で寝込んでいる。
She is bedridden with fever from illness.
病熱が下がらず、入院することになった。
The fever from the illness wouldn't go down, so hospitalization was decided.
彼は病熱に苦しみながらも、最後まで原稿を書き続けた。
Despite suffering from fever, he continued writing his manuscript to the very end.
Composed of 病 (illness, disease) and 熱 (heat, fever). A literary word more commonly found in novels and historical writing than in everyday conversation.
In everyday speech, simply 熱 (fever) or 熱がある (to have a fever) is more common.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 病熱に苦しむ (to suffer from fever)
- 病熱で倒れる (to collapse from fever)
- 病熱が続く (fever persists)
SIMILAR WORDS:
- 病熱: fever caused by illness (literary)
- 発熱: developing a fever (medical, clinical)
- 高熱: high fever (describes severity)