Intercurrent
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Intercurrent is an adjective meaning Coming between, temporally; intervening in time.
Meaning
Coming between, temporally; intervening in time.
More Meanings
- (medicine, of a disease or condition) Simultaneous; occurring at the same time as, or during the period of, another condition.
- (medicine, of a disease or condition) Not belonging to any particular season.
- (obsolete) Running between or among, in a physical sense; interlayered.
- (rare, obsolete) Something intervening.
Example Sentences
Intercurrent Ethereal Substance
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.
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.
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 […].
Word Forms
- intercurrents
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include intermedial, intervenient, interjacent, interstitial, intercident, interrun.
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