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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DEFERVESCENCE; DEFERVESCENCY

De `fer *ves "cence, De `fer *ves "cency, n. Etym: [L. defervescere to grow cool. ]

 

1. A subsiding from a state of ebullition; loss of heat; lukewarmness. A defervescency in holy actions. Jer. Taylor.

 

2. (Med. )

 

Defn: The subsidence of a febrile process; as, the stage of defervescence in pneumonia.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

defervescence

de fer ves cence |ˌdēfərˈvesəns, ˌdefər -ˌdifərˈvɛsns | ▶noun Medicine the abatement of a fever as indicated by a decrease in bodily temperature. DERIVATIVES de fer vesce |-ˈves |verb ORIGIN early 18th cent.: from Latin defervescent- ‘ceasing to boil, ’ from the verb defervescere.

 

Oxford Dictionary

defervescence

defervescence |ˌdɪfəˈvɛs (ə )ns | ▶noun [ mass noun ] Medicine the abatement of a fever as indicated by a decrease in bodily temperature. DERIVATIVES defervesce verb ORIGIN early 18th cent.: from Latin defervescent- ‘ceasing to boil ’, from the verb defervescere.