Remittent

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Remitting; characterized by remission; having remissions. Remittent fever (Med.) a fever in which the symptoms temporarily abate at regular intervals, but do not wholly cease. See Malarial fever, under Malarial.

Adj.

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remittent - (of a disease) characterized by periods of diminished severity; "a remittent fever"

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