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intermittent (adjective), more intermittent, most intermittent
1. Stopping and starting at regular intervals: Trains, busses, and other means of transportation have intermittent schedules so people can plan their trips better or get to their places of work at a set time more efficiently.
2. Stopping and starting at irregular times: Rain showers usually fall at intermittent intervals making it difficult to plan picnics out in the park in the summer.
3. Alternately containing and lowering of water: There are many examples of intermittent lakes; especially, in regions where there are unpredictable amounts of rain per year that may cause the lakes to rise when there is a lot of rain or to become lower when there is a drought.
Starting and stopping periodically or alternating.
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This entry is located in the following units: inter-, intero- (page 10) miss-, mis-, -miss, -mis, mit-, mitt-, -mit, -mitt (page 3)
Word Entries containing the term: “intermittent
intermittent claudication
1. A cramping pain, as a result of exercise and relieved by rest, that is caused by an inadequate blood supply to the affected muscles, usually the calves.
2. Pathological pain and cramp in the calf muscles which is aggravated by walking and caused by an insufficient supply of blood.
3. Pain in the leg muscles which occurs during exercise and is relieved by rest.

Intermittent, means coming and going at intervals, and claudication refers to limping.

This term was originally described in horses which went lame with exercise and then recovered with rest.

The Roman Emperor Claudius, who ruled from A.D. 41 to 54, is said to have received this name because he limped, presumably from a birth defect; and he also stammered.

This entry is located in the following units: claudica-, claudic-, claud- + (page 1) inter-, intero- (page 10)
intermittent claudication of the cauda equina, pseudoclaudication syndrome
Pain and paresthesia (abnormal skin sensations), often succeeded by sensory loss, motor weakness, and loss of the reflexes, arising in the motor and sensory distribution of lumbar or sacral roots after the patient has walked some distance.

The neurologic signs, which are sometimes minimal but are accentuated by walking, are those of a cauda equina syndrome or a dull pain in the lower back and upper buttock region, analgesia in the buttocks, genitalia (or thigh), accompanied by a disturbance of bowel and bladder function.

This entry is located in the following units: claudica-, claudic-, claud- + (page 1) inter-, intero- (page 10) pseudo-, pseud- (page 1)
intermittent spinal claudication
Intermittent symptoms of spinal cord dysfunction; such as, weakness, paresthesiae (skin sensations, such as burning, itching, or tingling), and sphincter (circular band of muscle that surrounds an opening or passage in the body) disturbance, bought on by physical exertion.
This entry is located in the following units: claudica-, claudic-, claud- + (page 1) inter-, intero- (page 10)
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intermittent
Etymology: from inter- and mittere and other forms mitt, mit, miss, mis, and mise.

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Stopping and starting at regular intervals or at irregular times. (1)