a. Med. [SUB- 20 g.] Of a fever: Almost continuous, remittent.

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1836.  J. M. Gully, Magendie’s Formul. (ed. 2), 60. Twenty-seven sub-continued, and eight remittent fevers, were cured.

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1898.  P. Manson, Trop. Diseases, xxxvi. 543. Fever of an irregular, intermitting, or even of a sub-continued type.

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  So Sub-continual a.

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1890.  Billings, Nat. Med. Dict., Subcontinual fever, malarial fever.

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