Medical Term:
peripatetic
Pronunciation: per′i-pă-tet′ik
Definition:
- Walking around; formerly used to describe a patient with “walking” (i.e., mild) typhoid fever.
- Relating to a disease imported to a nonendemic area by a host clinically unaffected during the transport phase.
[G. peripatēsis, a walking about]
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Examples: glitazone, GI cocktail, etc.
