"Intermittent" is a word in ENGLISH

An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.

The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever; as, fever and ague.

A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.

To cease for a time or at intervals; to moderate; to be intermittent, as a fever.

An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is …

An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days.

Anything returning daily; especially (Med.), an intermittent fever or ague which returns every day.

A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one …