remittent

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Alternately increasing and decreasing in severity or intensity.

   • A remittent fever is when at certain periods the fever is more violent than at others, but the patient never intirely free from it.
2. 2

   Of or pertaining to remission of the severity of symptoms.

   • […] the long, long fever of life, which with him never knew a remittent moment, had robbed him of that which every man has a right to expect, some pleasure in the course of his existence.
3. 3

   A remittent fever.

   • If you would have died from fever, you would have died at Ujiji when you had that severe attack of remittent.

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