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Definition of Intermittent
1. Adjective. Stopping and starting at irregular intervals. "Intermittent rain showers"
Definition of Intermittent
1. a. Coming and going at intervals; alternating; recurrent; periodic; as, an intermittent fever.
2. n. An intermittent fever or disease.
Definition of Intermittent
1. Adjective. Stopping and starting at intervals; coming after a particular time span; not steady or constant ¹
2. Adjective. (context: specifically geology of a body of water) Existing only for certain seasons; that is, being dry for part of the year. ¹
3. Noun. (medicine dated) An intermittent fever or disease. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Intermittent
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Intermittent
1. Occurring at separated intervals, having periods of cessation of activity. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intermittent
Literary usage of Intermittent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1889)
"intermittent AND LATENT ALBUMINURIA. The following is an abstract of the conclusions
drawn by DR. GEORGE JOHNSON, expressing the main points of his paper in ..."
2. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"... 73 patients with intermittent claudication, 78 healthy smokers and in 38
healthy non-smokers. The mean ages of these groups were similar. ..."
3. The Principles and practice of medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1903)
"Thus a quotidian intermittent fever may be due to infection with either the tertian
... The regularly intermittent fevers yield promptly and immediately to ..."
4. Medical lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science, Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1866)
"A pernicious intermittent or remittent, accompanied By convulsions. ... A pernicious
intermittent, characterized by delirium in the paroxysms. ..."
5. La intossicazione chinica e l'infezione malarica by Salvatore Tomaselli, William Sydney Thayer (1897)
"TYPES OF FEVER.—The malarial fevers may be divided into two main classes : 1.
The regularly intermittent fevers: (a) Tertian fever; (5) quartan fever. 2. ..."
6. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"The escape moreover takes place at the same time as the entrance. intermittent
force (like that of the systole of the ventricle) working in a closed circuit ..."
7. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1893)
"When fluid is driven by an intermittent force, as by a pump, through a perfectly
rigid tube, such as a glass one (or a system of such tubes), there escapes ..."
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