intercurrent

Borrowed from Latin intercurrens, equivalent to inter- +‎ current.

intercurrent (not comparable)

1. Running between or among; intervening.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Robert Boyle to this entry?)

   • 1661, John Fell, The Life of The most Learned, Reverend and Pious Dr H. Hammond

     Nor did he onely stand and keep at bay this multiply'd contest; but (as if this had not been task enough) besides the intercurrent offices of life, his reception of Visits, answering of Letters, his constant Preaching and Catechising, he found leisure to write his Tract of Fundamentals, his Paraenesis, his Review of the Annotations

2. (medicine, of a disease or condition) Simultaneous; occurring at the same time as, or during the period of, another condition.
   • 1848, Robley Dunglison, The practice of medicine: a treatise on special pathology and therapeutics

     In intercurrent pneumonia, or such as occurs in the course of another disease, the absence of the characteristic expectoration, according to M. Andral, is noticed.

3. (medicine, of a disease or condition) Not belonging to any particular season.

• intercurrently

• comorbid

intercurrent (plural intercurrents)

1. Something intervening.
   • 1913, Havelock Ellis, Love and Pain

     As fatigue increases, the perception of the intercurrent excitation is retarded; an odor is perceived as exciting before it is perceived as a differentiated sensation

intercurrent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of intercurrō