intercurrent

American  

[in-ter-kur-uhnt, -kuhr-] / ˌɪn tərˈkɜr ənt, -ˈkʌr- /

adjective

1. intervening, as of time or events.

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

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intercurrent British  

/ ˌɪntəˈkʌrənt /

adjective

1. occurring during or in between; intervening

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

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Other Word Forms

• intercurrence noun
• intercurrently adverb

Etymology

Origin of intercurrent

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 • Mar. 11, 2021

Prognosis.—The tenure of life is uncertain as the patient offers little resistance to intercurrent affections such as influenza and pneumonia.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

The functions of the thoracic and abdominal organs seem to be normal, and death is generally due to some intercurrent disease, possibly tuberculosis.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

It is to hypnotism in the first place that we may look for an increased power of analysis of these intercurrent streams, these irregularly super-posed strata of our psychical being.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

When, however, in consequence of some intercurrent disease or conditions of malnutrition the general defences of the body become weakened extension follows.

From Disease and Its Causes by Councilman, William Thomas