intermittent : Idioms & Phrases

noun lameness due to pain in leg muscles because the blood supply is inadequate; pain subsides with rest

noun clinical neurological syndrome characterized by muscular twitching and cramps and (when severe) seizures; associated with calcium deficiency (hypoparathyroidism) or vitamin D deficiency or alkalosis
tetany; intermittent cramp; tetanilla; apyretic tetanus.

(Med.), a disease with fever which recurs at certain intervals; applied particularly to fever and ague. See Fever.

springs which flow at intervals, not apparently dependent upon rain or drought. They probably owe their intermittent action to their being connected with natural reservoirs in hills or mountains by passages having the form of a siphon, the water beginning to flow when it has accumulated so as to fill the upper part of the siphon, and ceasing when, by running through it, it has fallen below the orifice of the upper part of the siphon in the reservoir.

noun clinical neurological syndrome characterized by muscular twitching and cramps and (when severe) seizures; associated with calcium deficiency (hypoparathyroidism) or vitamin D deficiency or alkalosis
tetany; intermittent cramp; tetanilla; apyretic tetanus.