remittent
Americanadjective
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abating for a time or at intervals.
remittent symptoms.
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of, relating to, or characterized by a remittent fever.
noun
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of remittent
1685–95; < Latin remittent- (stem of remittēns ), present participle of remittere to send back. See remit, -ent
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I was down with an attack of the billious remittent fever.
From Time Magazine Archive
The symptoms are: remittent fever, emaciation, roughening of, the hair and especially enlargement of the spleen and liver.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before closing the remarks concerning the digestive organs in remittent fever I should mention that in the long array of cases I have treated I cannot recall one solitary instance of black vomit.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
By comparing these statistics with those of intermittent fever recorded in a previous section it will be found that remittent fever is more than twelve times as fatal to life as the simple intermittent forms.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
The existence of complications, inflammatory in their nature, may change intermittent into remittent attacks.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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