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."

From BBC

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.

From Nature

On analysis he found that 12 of these came out of the intercurrent disease in a worse condition, 11 were unaffected, and 1 only seemed a little better.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

In like manner, a more supporting course is required in most of those cases in which yellow fever occurs as an intercurrent affection, in all those cases which are termed typhoid or adynamic per se, and, more emphatically still, in every case in which hemorrhages are occurring.

From Project Gutenberg