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Atavism :: Atavism (n.) The recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation, after an intermission for a generation or two..

Quintan :: Quintan (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days..

Unintermission :: Unintermission (n.) Want or failure of intermission.

Apyretic :: Apyretic (a.) Without fever; -- applied to days when there is an intermission of fever.

Sabbath :: Sabbath (n.) Fig.: A time of rest or repose; intermission of pain, effort, sorrow, or the like..

Paroxysm :: Paroxysm (n.) The fit, attack, or exacerbation, of a disease that occurs at intervals, or has decided remissions or intermissions..

Intermission :: Intermission (n.) Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes..

Period :: Period (n.) The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission..

Trill :: Trill (n.) A sound, of consonantal character, made with a rapid succession of partial or entire intermissions, by the vibration of some one part of the organs in the mouth -- tongue, uvula, epiglottis, or lip -- against another part; as, the r is a trill in most languages..

Tertian :: Tertian (n.) A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day..

Remission :: Remission (n.) A temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in which the disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement..

Vacancy :: Vacancy (n.) Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation.

Vacancy :: Vacancy (n.) The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness..

Eternal :: Eternal (a.) Continued without intermission; perpetual; ceaseless; constant.

Interruption :: Interruption (n.) Temporary cessation; intermission; suspension.

Truce :: Truce (n.) Hence, intermission of action, pain, or contest; temporary cessation; short quiet..

Respiration :: Respiration (n.) Interval; intermission.

Ceaseless :: Ceaseless (adv.) Without intermission or end.

Sabbatical :: Sabbatical (a.) Of or pertaining to the Sabbath; resembling the Sabbath; enjoying or bringing an intermission of labor.

Intermittence :: Intermittence (n.) Act or state of intermitting; intermission.

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