What does FUO mean in Hospitals?
This page is about the meanings of the acronym/abbreviation/shorthand FUO in the Medical field in general and in the Hospitals terminology in particular.
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Definition
What does FUO mean?
- Fever of unknown origin
- Fever of unknown origin, pyrexia of unknown origin or febris e causa ignota refers to a condition in which the patient has an elevated temperature but despite investigations by a physician no explanation has been found. If the cause is found it usually is a diagnosis of exclusion, that is, by eliminating all possibilities until only one explanation remains, and taking this as the correct one.
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