intermittent
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (specifically, geology, of a body of water) Existing only for certain seasons; that is, being dry for part of the year.Examples: "The area has many intermittent lakes and streams."
noun (English)
1. (medicine, dated) An intermittent fever or disease.Examples: "Feuers, and especially those that are called intermittents, discontinuing agues, euen naturally at the beginning and their first inuasion, cause vomits: and at the declining, sweats."; "The Bark, which had been ineffectual in the Intermittents of the former Year, was successful in this."; "In disease, the agency of this system of vessels is an object of attentive study with the pathologist. To its influence in inflammation, we have already alluded; but it is no less exemplified in the more general diseases of the frame, as in the cold, hot, and sweating stages of an intermittent."
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