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pyrogenic


  2  definitions  found 
 
  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  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pyrogenic 
  adj  :  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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