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

This exercise also allowed us to develop recommendations for how to consider ‘intercurrent events’, such as a stroke or change in medication regimen, that some older participants in a long trial will inevitably experience, and which complicate the interpretation of results.

From Nature

Pertussis may be cited as an example, the cough of which is sometimes modified by an intercurrent attack of scarlet fever, the symptoms of the latter disease undergoing little change.

From Project Gutenberg

It is well known, for instance, that syphilitic eruptions will sometimes disappear upon the supervention of some acute intercurrent affection, such as pneumonia, acute rheumatism, etc.; but no one will suppose for a moment that the retrocession of the syphilides was the cause of these affections.24 The pathological explanation seems obvious.

From Project Gutenberg

On analysis he found that 12 of these came out of the intercurrent disease in a worse condition, 11 were unaffected, and 1 only seemed a little better.

From Project Gutenberg