Lexic.us

Definition of Sporadic

1. Adjective. Recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances. "A city subjected to sporadic bombing raids"

Definition of Sporadic

1. a. Occuring singly, or apart from other things of the same kind, or in scattered instances; separate; single; as, a sporadic fireball; a sporadic case of disease; a sporadic example of a flower.

Definition of Sporadic

1. Adjective. Rare and scattered in occurrence. ¹

2. Adjective. Exhibiting random behavior; patternless. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sporadic

1. occurring at irregular intervals [adj]

Medical Definition of Sporadic

1. Neither endemic nor epidemic, occurring occasionally in a random or isolated manner. Origin: Gr. Sporadikos = scattered, L. Sporadicus This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sporadic

Literary usage of Sporadic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the principles and practice of medicine: Designed for the Use by Austin Flint (1868)
"sporadic Cholera. The affection called cholera, in its ordinary form, ... The term sporadic serves to distinguish this from another affection, ..."

2. A Treatise on the principles and practice of medicine: Designed for the Use by Austin Flint, Frederick Porteous Henry (1894)
"ASIATIC sporadic Cholera : Clinical History ; Pathological Character ... sporadic CHOLERA may be considered as a functional affection of the stomach and ..."

3. A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use by Austin Flint (1873)
"sporadic Dysentery — Anatomical Characters—Clinical History— Pathological ... sporadic and epidemic dysentery will claim separate consideration. ..."

4. Yellow fever, considered in its historical, pathological, etiological, and by René La Roche (1855)
"The occurrence of sporadic cases of yellow fever in any place may with propriety be regarded as a valid reason in favour of the doctrine of local origin and ..."

5. Pathological Physiology of Internal Diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"sporadic Cretinism When hypothyroidism occurs in early life (sporadic cretinism) tin' effects ... In sporadic cretins the bony development i< incomplete. ..."

6. A Treatise on the principles and practice of medicine: Designed for the Use by Austin Flint (1867)
"sporadic Cholera—Clinical History—Pathological ... sporadic CHOLERA. The affection called cholera, in its ordinary form, is commonly known as cholera ..."

7. A Treatise on the principles and practice of medicine: Designed for the Use by Austin Flint (1881)
"OF the functional affections of the stomach and the intestine enumerated in a preceding chapter, two remain to be considered, namely, sporadic and epidemic ..."

Other Resources: