intercurrentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

intercurrent (not comparable)

1. Running between or among; intervening.
   • 1660, Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanical: Touching the Spring of the Air and their Effects

     Intercurrent Ethereal Substance

   • 1661, John Fell, The Life of The most Learned, Reverend and Pious Dr H. Hammond

     Nor did he onely stand and keep at bay this multiply'd contest; but (as if this had not been task enough) besides the intercurrent offices of life, his reception of Visits, answering of Letters, his constant Preaching and Catechising, he found leisure to write his Tract of Fundamentals, his Paraenesis, his Review of the Annotations

2. (medicine, of a disease または condition) Simultaneous; occurring at the same time as, or during the period of, another condition.
   • 1848, Robley Dunglison, The practice of medicine: a treatise on special pathology and therapeutics

     In intercurrent pneumonia, or such as occurs in the course of another disease, the absence of the characteristic expectoration, according to M. Andral, is noticed.

3. (medicine, of a disease または condition) Not belonging to any particular season.