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adj. Characterized by temporary abatement in severity. Used especially of diseases.

adj. Of or pertaining to remission of the severity of symptoms

adj. Remitting; characterized by remission; having remissions.

Temporarily abating; having remissions from time to time: noting diseases the symptoms of which diminish very considerably, but never entirely disappear as in intermittent diseases.

n. Same as remittent fever (which see, under fever).

adj. (of a disease) characterized by periods of diminished severity

"The evening of this day I was attacked with urticaria, or “nettle rash,” for the third time since arriving in Africa, and I suffered a woeful sickness; and it was the forerunner of an attack of remittent fever, which lasted four days."

decreased    reduced   

biliary    remittent bilious fever    remittent fever    yellow remittent fever   

remitting    intermittent   

blackwater    claudication    quartan    oxymoronic    ofgällivare    dengue    shock-induced    low-grade    lowish    heavy-limbed