Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pyrogenic"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pyrogenic \Pyr`o*gen"ic\, a. [Pyro- + -gen + -ic.] (Physiol.)
Producing heat; -- said of substances, as septic poisons,
which elevate the temperature of the body and cause fever.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pyrogenic
adj 1: produced by or producing fever [syn: {pyrogeneous}]
2: produced under conditions involving intense heat; "igneous
rock is rock formed by solidification from a molten state;
especially from molten magma"; "igneous fusion is fusion
by heat alone"; "pyrogenic strata" [syn: {igneous}]
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