病熱(びょうねつ)

びょうねつ
noun
fever caused by illness
formalmedical
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(びょうねつ)で寝込(ねこ)んでいる。
She is bedridden with fever from illness.
病熱(びょうねつ)が下(さ)がらず、入院(にゅういん)することになった。
The fever from the illness wouldn't go down, so hospitalization was decided.
彼(かれ)は病熱(びょうねつ)に苦(くる)しみながらも、最後(さいご)まで原稿(げんこう)を書(か)き続(つづ)けた。
Despite suffering from fever, he continued writing his manuscript to the very end.

Composed of 病(びょう) (illness, disease) and 熱(ねつ) (heat, fever). A literary word more commonly found in novels and historical writing than in everyday conversation.

In everyday speech, simply 熱(ねつ) (fever) or 熱(ねつ)がある (to have a fever) is more common.

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Compare: 発熱(はつねつ) (developing a fever (clinical))
Related: 高熱(こうねつ) (high fever)
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