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intercurrent, a. (n.)|ɪntəˈkʌrənt|
[ad. L. intercurrent-em, pr. pple. of intercurrĕre to intercur.]
That runs or comes between.
1.
†a. Of material things: Coming in between others; lying or situated between. Obs.
1656W. D. tr. Comenius' Gate Lat. Unl. §41. 17 The Cardinal winds..with their middle, and the other inter⁓current ones. 1665Hooke Microgr. 160 Some very easie way of separating the pulp or intercurrent juices. 1682Grew Veget. Roots §39 Yielding to the intercurrent Fibres of the Parenchyma. c1685E. Halley in Naval Chron. VIII. 119 This shoalness of the sea, and the intercurrent continents, are the reason.
b. Of time, the course of events: Intervening.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. viii. iii. §16. 385 By many his intercurrent actions..he may iustly be cleared of that imputation. 1614Raleigh Hist. World iii. (1634) 16 A longer space of time intercurrent. 1677R. Cary Chronol. ii. ii. iii. xx. 268 The intercurrent dispositions of the Times under the Persian and Macedonian, ægyptian Monarchies. 1883F. W. H. Myers Ess., Mod., Mazzini (1885) 3 Alfieri—his republicanism strangely complicated by an intercurrent passion for high-born dames. 1887F. Robinson New Relig. Med. 82 The Book of Job affords a sufficient refutation; no intercurrent paradox meets us there.
†c. Of messengers: Passing to and fro between parties. Obs. rare—1.
1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Warres 663 The Embassadors could not be drawn to agree..Nor was there any better progress by intercurrent Messengers.
2. spec. in Med.
a. Of a disease: Occurring during the progress of another disease. Also, Recurring at intervals. Formerly (of a fever), Happening at any period of the year, as distinguished from those confined to particular seasons.
1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. vi. 189 Some Fevers may deservedly be reckoned among the Intercurrent. 1857Dunglison Med. Lex. 504 Intercurrent Pneumonia. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 493 The low inter⁓current inflammations which occur in scurvy. 1877Erichsen Surgery I. 11 Slow recoveries, often interrupted by intercurrent diseases.
b. Of the pulse: Having an extra beat.
1707Floyer Physic. Pulse-Watch 49 An intercurrent Pulse is unequal in Crebrity, when one Pulse happens more than usual. 1857Dunglison Med. Lex. 503 The pulse in such cases [of intercadence] is said to be intercurrent.
†B. n. An intervening circumstance or event; an incident. Obs. rare—1.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1224 Fortune..having diversified..our enterprise, like a plaie or enterlude, with many dangerous intercurrents, was assistant and ran with us.
Hence interˈcurrently adv., in an intercurrent manner.
1885–8Fagge & Pye-Smith Princ. Med. (ed. 2) I. 175 Examples of relapse occurring ‘intercurrently’. |