intercurrent

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Running between or among, in a physical sense

   Running between or among, in a physical sense; interlayered.

   • Intercurrent Ethereal Substance
2. 2

   Coming between, temporally

   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 Annotations […].
   • 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 […].
3. 3

   Simultaneous

   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.
   • 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.
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   1. 4

      Not belonging to any particular season.

   2. 5

      Something intervening.

The neighborhood

• neighborintercur
• neighborintercurrence
• neighborcomorbid