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单词 subcontinued
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subcontinuedadj.

Brit. /ˌsʌbkənˈtɪnjuːd/, U.S. /ˌsəbkənˈtɪnjud/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: sub- prefix, continued adj.
Etymology: < sub- prefix + continued adj., after post-classical Latin subcontinuus (see subcontinual adj.). Compare earlier subcontinual adj.
Medicine. Now historical and rare.
Of fever or a febrile disease, esp. malaria: almost continuous; having paroxysms which begin shortly after (or occasionally, shortly before) the previous one ends.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [adjective] > almost continuous
subcontinual1783
subcontinued1799
subcontinuous1837
1799 A. P. Wilson Treat. Febrile Dis. I. i. i. 69 When the fits are so protracted that one begins almost as soon as the preceding fit ends, this as well as other remittents have been termed subintrant, or sub-continued.
1836 J. M. Gully tr. F. Magendie Formulary (ed. 2) 60 Twenty-seven sub-continued, and eight remittent fevers, were cured.
1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xxxvi. 543 Fever of an irregular, intermitting, or even of a sub-continued type.
1901 Jrnl. Hygiene 1 36 Marchiafava and Bignami describe cases of malignant fever often of a subcontinued form.
1933 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 26 Aug. 393/2 In the early eighteenth century an Italian, Torti, observed that of the fevers curable by quinine some were intermittent, and some were, as he said, subcontinued.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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