intercurrent
Running between or among, in a physical sense; interlayered.
Adjective
- Running between or among, in a physical sense; interlayered.
- Intercurrent Ethereal Substance - 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer...
- Coming between, temporally; intervening in time.
- [B]esides the intercurrent offices of life, his reception of Visits, answering of Letters, his constant Preaching and Catechising, he found leisure to write his Tract of Fundamentals, his Paraenesis, his Review of the...
- As fatigue increases, the perception of the intercurrent excitation is retarded; an odor is perceived as exciting before it is perceived as a differentiated sensation […]. - 1913, Havelock Ellis, Love and Pain:
- Simultaneous; occurring at the same time as, or during the period of, another condition.
- In intercurrent pneumonia, or such as occurs in the course of another disease, the absence of the characteristic expectoration, according to M. Andral, is noticed. - 1848, Robley Dunglison, The practice of medicine: a...
- As a matter of fact, these drugs are often used […] to save the doctors the trouble of making a diagnosis, or finding out the cause of some intercurrent malady. - 1921, Montagu Lomax, The Experiences of an Asylum...
- Not belonging to any particular season.
Origin
Borrowed from Latin intercurrens, equivalent to inter- + current.
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Noun
- Something intervening.