sta'dium, pi. sta'dia

[G. stadion, a. measure of distance, about 600 feet, used in races.] stage in the course of a disease, especially of an acute pyretic disease, s. acmes, the acme or height of a disease, s. augmen'ti, the stage of rising temperature, s. calo'ris, the feverish stage in a malarial paroxysm, b. decremen'ti, the stage of falling temperature or defervescence, s. defervescen'tise, s. decrement!, s. deflorescen'tiae, the stage of disappearing eruption in an exanthematous disease, s. florescen'tise, the eruptive stage in an exanthematous disease, s. fri'goris. (i) the cold stage or stage of chill in a malarial paroxysm; (2) the algid stage in cholera, s, invasio'nis, the prodromal or incubative stage of an infectious disease, s. sudo'ris, the sweating stage in a malarial paroxysm.