remittent

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remittent - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Remittent \Re*mit"tent\ (r?-m?t"tent), a. [L. remittens, p. pr.
     : cf. F. r['e]mittent.]
     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.
        [1913 Webster]

  decreased \decreased\ adj.
     made less in size or amount or degree. Opposite of
     increased. [Narrower terms: attenuate, attenuated, faded, weakened
     ; belittled, diminished, small; cut, cut-rate;
     diminished, lessened; minimized; remittent;
     attenuated]
  
     Syn: reduced.
          [WordNet 1.5]

remittent - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  remittent
      adj 1: (of a disease) characterized by periods of diminished
             severity; "a remittent fever"

remittent - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "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