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sporadic
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sporadic /spo·rad·ic/ (spo-rad´ic) occurring singly; widely scattered; not epidemic or endemic.
spo·rad·ic (sp-rdk, spô-) or spo·rad·i·cal (--kl)
adj.
1. Occurring at irregular intervals.
2. Occurring singly; not grouped.

Sporadic
Occurring at random or by chance, and not as a result of a genetically determined, or inherited, trait.

sporadic
[spôrat′ik]
Etymology: Gk, sporaden, scattered
(of a number of events) occurring at scattered, intermittent, and apparently random intervals.

sporadic [spŏ-rad´ik]
occurring singly; widely scattered; not epidemic or endemic.

sporadic
occurring irregularly, usually infrequently.

sporadic
Epidemiology adjective Referring to a noninherited condition that arises rarely in a particular population Genetics adjective Referring to an event attributable to changes in somatic DNA, which may be inherited, but unpredictably


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