intermittent Copy link • intermittent: Phr.: an i. fever, febris quae ex toto intermittit, Cels. 3, 3, init.; febris genus quod circuitu quodam redit, cf. Cels. l. c: the chief species of i. fevers are there given, e. g. quotidiana, tertiana, quartana (quae altero, tertio, quarto quoque die revertuntur).