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Definition of sporadic

Sporadic
Sporadic Spo*rad"ic, a. [Gr. ? scattered, fr. ?, ?, scattered, fr. ? to sow seed, to scatter like seed: cf. F. sporadique. See Spore.] Occuring singly, or apart from other things of the same kind, or in scattered instances; separate; single; as, a sporadic fireball; a sporadic case of disease; a sporadic example of a flower. Sporadic disease (Med.), a disease which occurs in single and scattered cases. See the Note under Endemic, a.

Meaning of sporadic from wikipedia

- The qualification sporadic, indicating that occurrences of some phenomenon are rare and not systematic, can be used for: Sporadic group, any of a small...
- In infectious disease epidemiology, a sporadic disease is an infectious disease which occurs only infrequently, haphazardly, irregularly, or occasionally...
- infinite family. These are called the sporadic simple groups, or the sporadic finite groups, or just the sporadic groups. A simple group is a group G that...
- mutation in the PRNP gene, with the remainder of cases occurring sporadically (sporadic fatal insomnia [sFI]). The problems with sleeping typically start...
- An accessory muscle is a relatively rare anatomical variation where duplication of a muscle may appear anywhere in the muscular system. Treatment is not...
- an infected person may also result in spread. There is no evidence that sporadic CJD can spread among people via normal contact or blood transfusions, although...
- Sporadic E (abbreviated Es or SpE) is an unusual form of radio propagation using a low level of the Earth's ionosphere that normally does not refract radio...
- meteor showers) often ****ociated with a parent comet, others apparently sporadic. Debris from meteoroid streams may eventually be scattered into other orbits...
- regions consists of areas with 10%–50% coverage, which are defined as sporadic permafrost zones, and some areas that have isolated patches of permafrost...
- A goitre, or goiter, is a swelling in the neck resulting from an enlarged thyroid gland. A goitre can be ****ociated with a thyroid that is not functioning...