† intercidentadj.
Obsolete.
1. Medicine. Of days in an illness: Falling between the critical and judicial days.
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1603 C. Heydon Def. Iudiciall Astrol. xxi. 424 In these 20 daies..the septenaries be Criticall, the quaternaries, iudiciall: all the rest, intercident, and of least force.
1686 R. Boyle Free Enq. Notion Nature vi. 226 She [Nature] rouses herself up to make a crisis..on improper, and, as Physicians call them, intercident days, such as the third, fifth, ninth.
2. Pathology. Of the pulse: cf. intercadence n.Littré has French intercédent in this sense.
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intercurrent1707
arrhythmous1853
intercadent1887
1665 G. Harvey Disc. Plague 3 In a Malign Pestilent Feaver [the pulse is] thick, low, languid..quavering and intercident.
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1658 Culpeper's Semeiotica Uranica (ed. 3) 22 Another time is called Intercidental, which is a time falls out between the Judicial dayes and Critical.
1671 J. Blagrave Astrol. Pract. Physick 22 The intercidental time or divident part of the circle is not so dangerous, as the judicial time or part.
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