Pel-Ebstein fever

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Pel-Ebstein fever

The remittent fever common in Hodgkin's disease.

Pel-Ebstein fever

[pel′ eb′stēn]

Etymology: Pieter K. Pel, Dutch physician, 1852-1919; Wilhelm Ebstein, German physician, 1836-1912

a fever recurring in cycles of several days or weeks, characteristic of Hodgkin's disease or other malignant lymphoma. Also called Murchison fever.

Pel-Ebstein fever [pel´ eb´stīn]

a cyclic fever occasionally seen in hodgkin's disease and other diseases, characterized by irregular episodes of fever of several days' duration.

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