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fever sweats

A condition characterized by and inability to function in the clinic due to debilitating fever and profuse sweating.

Frequently seen in ophthalmology residents who see patient's on-call after 12:00 a.m.

A common side effect of fever sweats is temporary hearing loss and the inability to hear your morning alarm.

Often, fever sweats will resolve spontaneously without any treatment. Once resolved, the person will feel back to baseline as if nothing happened.

The long-term sequelae of fever sweats is a weirdly sensation that lasts up to 3 years from the onset of fever sweats.

Signs and symptoms of fever sweats usually manifest during the resident's post-call day

The etiology is fever sweats is unknown, but is more common in medical residents with advanced degrees e.g. MD, PhD
"I have fever sweats and didn't wake up to my alarm, anyway, I am now feeling weirdly as if nothing happened, not sure what was that shit"

"Sorry guys, I got dem fever sweats again so I won't be able to come to clinic"

"If you don't see me in clinic tomorrow then know that I probably have fever sweats and need my post-call day"

"Post call today, I got fever sweats."

"Won't be at teaching, I got fever sweats."

"Sorry we have to reschedule your appointment because the doctor has fever sweats today from being on-call"
by Ronnie P. March 25, 2022
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curve fever

A game that Tripp is trash at. The meme BlueFurby/BlueFurry and "trash monkey" was also created here.
"Grant, get off of curve fever!"
by im+snot+here+off-10 March 13, 2017
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Deaver Fever

When you express great gratitude because a student is gone.
The teacher had Deaver fever when they found out Brianna wasn’t at school.
by Swagmoney drip March 10, 2022
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Johnson fever

Noun - refers to the intense craving of Johnny Orlando’s penis ( Johnson ). This can affect anyone from age 12-92. So kids, parents and grandparents be sure to get your ur annual Johnson shots. it occurs most commonly with female tings, but males catch it pretty often as well. Anyone can be diagnosed with it from being in contact with johnny, or the mere sight of him.

Symptoms: constant thoughts of Johnny Orlando, weird urges to to swallow Johnson , weird thoughts about Johnson, stomach butterflies, hot flashes, betraying your friends to obtain johnson and cravings of Cheetos

How ever if you do catch Johnson fever there is no need to be alarmed, there are hundreds of cases of it a month. Unfortunately there have not been very many remedies for curing it yet. In fact som cases get worse. It’s recently been discovered that physical contact with Johnson could possibly leave you temporarily crippled after while craving johnson more. If you ever spot Johnson don’t be almarmed at it’s height of 8.5 inches , it will not harm you if you don’t get too close.
sarah has been thinking about johnny all night , she has a bad case of johnson fever
by Johnsonfeverresearchcenter November 1, 2018
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Suicide fever

when someone cant stop thinking about suicide, its all they think about
“im sorry I've been so down lately, i have suicide fever and im not doing so good….”
by valhagesyui November 18, 2022
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derka fever

an obsession/ fatal attraction to people of middle-eastern and/or indian descent
damn she loves doze patels! i hear she haz derka fever. ayeeee
by derkajlksajdfoisanfsa April 25, 2011
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Fever cocoon

The state of near physical immobilization a body goes through while feverish and down with an illness such as influenza. This state is seemingly natures way of keeping us from wasting energy on activities of daily living beyond the absolute necessary so the body can work on fighting the illness. In essence causing an invisible , but very palpable cocoon around the person who is ill and feverish.
During my days of fever I felt the fever cocoon envelope me as it did not even allow me to wash dishes or get dressed.
by Nurse Mary December 9, 2023
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