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Intermittent :: Intermittent (n.) An intermittent fever or disease.

Quotidian :: Quotidian (n.) Anything returning daily; especially (Med.), an intermittent fever or ague which returns every day..

Spasmodic :: Spasmodic (a.) Soon relaxed or exhausted; convulsive; intermittent; as, spasmodic zeal or industry..

Intermissive :: Intermissive (a.) Having temporary cessations; not continual; intermittent.

Concentrator :: Concentrator (n.) An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air..

Intermit :: Intermit (v. i.) To cease for a time or at intervals; to moderate; to be intermittent, as a fever..

Ague :: Ague (n.) An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits..

Cam :: Cam (n.) A turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its periphery or face, or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or intermittent motion to, or receives such motion from, a rod, lever, or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it..

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

Shimmer :: Shimmer (v. i.) To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer.

Semitertian :: Semitertian (a.) Having the characteristics of both a tertian and a quotidian intermittent.

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

Quartan :: Quartan (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days..

Intermittent :: Intermittent (a.) Coming and going at intervals; alternating; recurrent; periodic; as, an intermittent fever..

Ague :: Ague (n.) The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever; as, fever and ague..

Blink :: Blink (v. i.) To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp..

Intermittently :: Intermittently (adv.) With intermissions; in an intermittent manner; intermittingly.

Antiperiodic :: Antiperiodic (n.) A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers..

Tetany :: Tetany (n.) A morbid condition resembling tetanus, but distinguished from it by being less severe and having intermittent spasms..

Semitertian :: Semitertian (n.) An intermittent combining the characteristics of a tertian and a quotidian.

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