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Siberia is even more pyretic, averaging more than nine degrees above the 20th-century norm from January onward.—Bathsheba Demuth, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2020 The feces of silkworm (Bombyx mori) have pharmacological properties that give it analgesic, anti-pyretic and anti-inflammatory applications in herbal medicine.—Prayan Pokharel, Smithsonian, 17 Aug. 2017 The feces of silkworm (Bombyx mori) have pharmacological properties that give it analgesic, anti-pyretic and anti-inflammatory applications in herbal medicine.—Prayan Pokharel, Smithsonian, 17 Aug. 2017
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Etymology
New Latin pyreticus, from Greek pyretikos, from pyretos fever, from pyr
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