Definition of "wound-fever" [wound-fever]

• A fever, probably mildly septic in its nature, which sometimes occurs after receiving a wound, whether accidental or made during an operation: in the latter case also called surgical fever. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "But, for a few days, we shall still remain together, for the wound-fever will compel us to advance very slowly."
• "We are disabled, and will be helpless as soon as the wound-fever sets in; and we may be sure that that will be to-night."
• "With the earliest morrow, my father hastened to Narciss, whom he found lying very sick of a wound-fever."