Patients are not infrequently carried off by intercurrent disease.
In those rare instances of generalized disease the patient has usually died from an intercurrent tuberculosis.
A most plentiful crop of herpes was anintercurrent phenomenon in this case, or rather, was plainly dependent on the same cause which produced the neuralgia.
And side by side and intercurrent with these written messages come those strange meaningless arabesques which have been baptized as "spirit-drawings"--though they rarely show any clear trace of the operation of an external intelligence.
These intercurrent educations may have been naturally discordant, and may be fused in all kinds of ways in the ultimate synthesis.
It is to hypnotism in the first place that we may look for an increased power of analysis of these intercurrent streams, these irregularly super-posed strata of our psychical being.
He lived to the age of past fifty, and then died from an intercurrent disease not connected with his intestinal condition, having in the meantime enjoyed good health.
In a great many cases fatal termination comes, not from the original affection, but through intercurrent disease.
The most important of these is general debility, but the presence of rickets or tuberculosis, or an intercurrent acute infectious disease, may delay the reparative process.
In mild cases, especially when associated with rickets or syphilis, recovery sometimes takes place, but in the majority the condition progresses, and death results either from convulsions or from some intercurrent disease.
The tenure of life is uncertain as the patient offers little resistance to intercurrent affections such as influenza and pneumonia.
Proceeding to its natural termination without complications or intercurrent affections, death finally occurs from exhaustion.
If tubercular phthisis supervenes, recovery is not to be expected, while intercurrent disease, as pneumonia, which is rather prone to occur, is very much more serious and apt to terminate fatally.
After a time structural changes occur in the liver; the organs of circulation early undergo atheromatous degeneration; various cerebral disorders due to degenerative changes arise; and acute intercurrent affections may terminate life.
The most usual intercurrent maladies are peritonitis, pleuritis, and other serous inflammations.
Patients under these circumstances drag out a life of valetudinarianism, but it may be cut short at any time by the supervention of some intercurrent disease, as phthisis, renal degeneration, etc.
Where the case is embarrassed with complications of the respiratory and circulatory {183} organs, involvement of the bones, and intercurrent diseases, the outlook becomes correspondingly grave.
When intercurrent attacks of diarrhoea come on with coated tongue, flatulence, distress about the umbilicus after eating, bismuth given on an empty stomach in full doses is serviceable.
It is important to know that intercurrent febrile disease may produce a decided diminution in the daily quantity of urine, and of the sugar contained in it.
The duration of cirrhosis must necessarily depend largely on the occurrence of the complications above mentioned and on the appearance of intercurrent diseases.
The quantity which has been thus determined should be given continuously, or stopping only for the management of intercurrent complications, for at least eighteen months.
But this intercurrent factor is also non-specific.
The possibility of the three high temperatures with leucocytosis being due to intercurrentinfections must be considered.
From all that we know, it is probable that their number in the meantime had undergone an intercurrent increase.
It is of special importance to study the changes due to certain intercurrent diseases in the blood picture of medullary leukæmia.
A further source productive of misconceptions lies in the circumstance that the typical leukæmic condition of the blood may essentially change under the influences of intercurrent diseases.
He wept as he was going under narcosis to be operated upon for an intercurrent appendicitis.
If such patients survive the fourth or fifth year, they are usually carried off by some slight intercurrent disease shortly after puberty.
He may not suffer in his general health, however, to any serious extent, and may live on for twenty years, though usually his resistive vitality is lowered and he is carried off by some intercurrent disease.
We shall consider affections of these four organs, and their influence on the human system and intercurrent disease, in the order of their importance.
The existence of such condition makes them distinctly more vulnerable to any serious intercurrent disease, and this sign alone may be enough to put the attending physician on his guard as to the possibility of fatal complications in the case.
The legs and trunk atrophy, and death comes from an intercurrent disease.
It is well known, for instance, that syphilitic eruptions will sometimes disappear upon the supervention of some acuteintercurrent affection, such as pneumonia, acute rheumatism, etc.
When the restoration to health is retarded by the continuance of diarrhoea or by the occurrence of any intercurrent affection, the tongue will often become pale and flabby and be the seat of superficial ulcerations or of aphthous exudations.
Dengue, as has been stated before, scarcely ever terminates fatally unless it is complicated by some intercurrent disease.
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.
Then, again, the asylums and hospitals for children are peopled in many instances with the victims of depraved constitutions, who readily succumb to intercurrent maladies.
It is impossible to study the industrial history of the West without studying also that of the South, for though the two sections are far apart and utterly unlike, they yet have the intercurrent soul of twins.
The wounds heal well, but the victims of tabes are unfavourable subjects for operative interference, on account of their liability to intercurrent complications.
The disease is of slow progress and may become arrested; life may be prolonged for many years, or may be terminated by brain complications or by intercurrent affections.
In progressive cases the patient becomes exhausted, and usually dies of some intercurrent affection, particularly phthisis.
Though this be not every where so, the intercurrent partitions in some places being very much thicker in proportion to the holes.
The patient finally left the hospital and died of an intercurrent attack of pneumonia.
The functions of the thoracic and abdominal organs seem to be normal, and death is generally due to some intercurrent disease, possibly tuberculosis.
The child was under my care for two weeks, and, probably because of an intercurrent attack of diarrhea, grew steadily worse during that time, in spite of the full doses of arsenic which were administered to him.
An intercurrent affection may act either as a deterrent or as a stimulus; with convalescence, however, there is usually a re-establishment of the mischief.
The complications which may arise in this disease are intercurrent affections due to septic conditions of the bladder, bedsores, pneumonia, vascular and heart affections.
It is particularly important that intercurrent infections should be avoided by shielding patients from contact with those who have infectious diseases, especially respiratory infections.
This results when a large group of individuals have been maintained on a limited and inadequate ration, and especially where this nutritional condition is complicated by intercurrent infection.
This is an instance where latent scurvy was prematurely changed to acute scurvy by an intercurrent ward infection; an epidemic of grippe precipitated a pseudo-epidemic of scurvy.
The divergent reports probably should be attributed to the fact that the investigators are describing scurvy of various grades of severity, of different stages of development, or complicated by intercurrent disease.
The enlargement is usually by no means so great, and no doubt is due in part to intercurrent infections.
Is the Case one of Mental Deficiency, or of an Intercurrent Mental Affection?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intercurrent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: intermediary; intermediate; intervening; mean; medial; median; medium; middle
