remittent

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: re=mit=tent

CIDE DICTIONARY

remittent, a. [L. remittens, p. pr. : cf. F. rémittent.].

 Remitting; characterized by remission; having remissions.  [1913 Webster]

Remittent fever (Med.), a fever in which the symptoms temporarily abate at regular intervals, but do not wholly cease. See Malarial fever, under Malarial.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

remittent, adj. (of a fever) that abates at intervals.

Etymology

L remittere (as REMIT)

THESAURUS

remittent

calenture, childbed fever, continued fever, delirium, eruptive fever, febricity, febrility, fever, fever heat, feverishness, fire, flush, heat, hectic, hectic fever, hectic flush, hyperpyrexia, hyperthermia, intermittent fever, protein fever, puerperal fever, pyrexia, relapsing fever, remittent fever, urethral fever, vaccinal fever, water fever, wound fever

ROGET THESAURUS

remittent

Periodicity

N regularity of recurrence, periodicity, intermittence, beat, oscillation, pulse, pulsation, rhythm, alternation, alternateness, alternativeness, alternity, bout, round, revolution, rotation, turn, say, anniversary, jubilee, centenary, catamenia, courses, menses, menstrual flux, rota, cycle, period, stated time, routine, days of the week, Sunday, Monday, months of the year, January, feast, fast, Christmas, Easter, New Year's day, Allhallows, Allhallowmas, All Saints' Day, All Souls', All Souls' Day, Ash Wednesday, bicentennial, birthday, bissextile, Candlemas, Dewali, groundhog day, Halloween, Hallowmas, Lady day, leap year, Midsummer day, Muharram, woodchuck day, St. Swithin's day, natal day, yearbook, yuletide, punctuality, regularity, steadiness, periodic, periodical, serial, recurrent, cyclical, rhythmical, recurring, intermittent, remittent, alternate, every other, hourly, diurnal, daily, quotidian, tertian, weekly, hebdomadal, hebdomadary, biweekly, fortnightly, bimonthly, catamenial, monthly, menstrual, yearly, annual, biennial, triennial, centennial, secular, paschal, lenten, regular, steady, punctual, regular as clockwork, periodically, at regular intervals, at stated times, at fixed established, at established periods, punctually, de die in diem, from day to day, day by day, by turns, in turn, in rotation, alternately, every other day, off and on, ride and tie, round and round.