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shivering
Fine contractions of muscles, causing slight repetitive movements, employed for increasing heat production by the body, thus raising body temperature in conditions of cold or when disease induces fever. Uncontrollable shivering with gross movements of the whole body is a rigor seen only in some fevers.
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