Pyrogenic

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  pyrogenic
       adj 1: produced by or producing fever [syn: {pyrogenous}, {pyrogenetic}]
       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}, {pyrogenous}]