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Refer (medicine)


refer


1. To carry or send back.

2. Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, infirmation, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar to an officer; to refer a bill to a committee; a court refers a matter of fact to a commissioner for investigation, or refers a question of law to a superior tribunal.

3. To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation; as, he referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances. To refer one's self, to have recourse; to betake one's self; to make application; to appeal. "I'll refer me to all things sense." (Shak)

Origin: F. Referer, L. Referre; pref. Re- re- + ferre to bear. See Bear to carry.

Source: Websters Dictionary


pyrotoxin (medicine)


pyrotoxin


A supposed toxic substance produced in the tissues during the progress of a fever.