intercurrent

[in-ter-kur-uhnt, -kuhr-]

adjective

1. intervening, as of time or events.

2. Pathology.,  (of a disease) occurring while another disease is in progress.

intercurrent

/ ˌɪntəˈkʌrənt /

adjective

1. occurring during or in between; intervening

2. pathol (of a disease) occurring during the course of another disease

Other Word Forms

• intercurrence noun
• intercurrently adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of intercurrent¹

1605–15; < Latin intercurrent- (stem of intercurrēns ) present participle of intercurrere to run between. See inter-, current

Example Sentences

Both girls were suffering from infections before they died, and the scientists suggested that: "A fatal arrhythmic event may have been triggered by their intercurrent infections."

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This exercise also allowed us to develop recommendations for how to consider ‘intercurrent events’, such as a stroke or change in medication regimen, that some older participants in a long trial will inevitably experience, and which complicate the interpretation of results.

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It is well known, for instance, that syphilitic eruptions will sometimes disappear upon the supervention of some acute intercurrent affection, such as pneumonia, acute rheumatism, etc.; but no one will suppose for a moment that the retrocession of the syphilides was the cause of these affections.24 The pathological explanation seems obvious.

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Then, again, the asylums and hospitals for children are peopled in many instances with the victims of depraved constitutions, who readily succumb to intercurrent maladies.

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PROGNOSIS.—Dengue, as has been stated before, scarcely ever terminates fatally unless it is complicated by some intercurrent disease.

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