Intercurrent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Occurring at the same time as and usually altering the course of another disease.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Simultaneous; occurring at the same time as, or during the period of, another condition.
  • n. Something intervening.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Running between or among; intervening.
  • adj.
  • adj. Not belonging to any particular season.
  • adj. Said of diseases occurring in the course of another disease.
  • n. Something intervening.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Running between or among; occurring between; intervening.
  • Specifically, in pathology, occurring in a patient already suffering from some disease: said of a second disease.
  • n. Something that intervenes; an intercurrence; an incident.
  • Noting a pulse in which there is an occasional supernumerary beat.
    • Word Usage
    "As physical stress increases the body's needs for many vitamins and minerals, intercurrent infections also induce a relative nutrient deficiency, especially in chronic (long-term) grumbling types of infection e.g. acute cystitis, vaginal bacterial imbalance."
    Cross Reference
    comorbid   
    Form
    intercurrently   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    intervening   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    concurrent    current    recurrent   
     
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