Definition of Intermittent

1. Adjective. Stopping and starting at irregular intervals. "Intermittent rain showers"

Similar to: Sporadic
Derivative terms: Intermittence, Intermittency

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

intermining
interministerial
intermise
intermission
intermissionless
intermissions
intermissive
intermit
intermitotic
intermits
intermitted
intermittence
intermittences
intermittencies
intermittency
intermittent
intermittent acute porphyria
intermittent albuminuria
intermittent arthralgia
intermittent claudication
intermittent cramp
intermittent explosive disorder
intermittent haemoglobinuria
intermittent lake
intermittent lakes
intermittent malarial fever
intermittent mandatory ventilation
intermittent positive-pressure breathing
intermittent positive-pressure ventilation
intermittent pulse

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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