Pel-Ebstein fever
(pel'eb'stīn‵ 
)
[Pieter K. Pel, Dutch physician, 1852–1919; Wilhelm Ebstein, Ger. physician, 1836–1912]
Cyclic fever occurring in Hodgkin's disease in which high body temperatures lasting from 3 to 10 days are separated by an afebrile period of about the same length.