adjective
definition
(of diseases) occurring in isolated instances; not epidemic.
definition
Rare and scattered in occurrence.
definition
Exhibiting random behavior; patternless.
Examples of sporadic in a Sentence
His nobles, whom he tried to cow by sporadic acts of violence, rebelled against him.
But the failures were sporadic only.
A sporadic sleep schedule may make it difficult for you to fall asleep.
On the other hand, German sporadic attacks by sea and air on British watering places and the increasing activity of German submarines gave Mr. Churchill and the Admiralty much concern.
He was a sporadic observer.
Be aware that sporadic days off may be counted in your total disability time.
The children of a person with sporadic nail-patella syndrome are also at a 50 percent risk of inheriting the disorder.
If a child has cri du chat due to a sporadic deletion, the chance the parents could have another child with cri du chat is 1 percent.
With athetoid cerebral palsy, muscle control is affected by unwanted sporadic movements.
In 90 percent of children with cri du chat syndrome, the deletion is sporadic.
If a child has PWS due to a sporadic deletion in the paternal chromosome 15, the chance the parents could have another child with PWS is less than 1 percent.
The rain had quit for the day, though the tropical storm spinning around in the Gulf guaranteed another week or so of sporadic storms.
These features were not observed in patients with sporadic primary parathyroid adenomas.
Secondly, Dr. Will reported that he was now aware of five cases of apparently sporadic CJD in young people.
Unfortunately for you, though, these sleeping patterns will be sporadic.
No more cowering behind a big rock while you pop out and shoot sporadic fire.
It is not uncommon for a child with only sporadic or rare breath holding spells to have several in a single day.
Approximately 40 percent of people with retinoblastoma have an inherited form of the condition and approximately 60 percent have a sporadic (not inherited) form.
The average age of onset for the inherited form of retinoblastoma is one year, which is earlier than the sporadic form of retinoblastoma.
Approximately 60 percent of people with retinoblastoma have this type of disease, called sporadic retinoblastoma.
A person with sporadic retinoblastoma does not have a higher chance of having children with the disease.
Sporadic retinoblastoma is usually unifocal and has an average age of onset of approximately two years.
However, it cannot be assumed that a patient without a family history of the disease has a sporadic form.
The viruses causing primary encephalitis can be epidemic or sporadic.
The most common form of non-epidemic or sporadic encephalitis is caused by the herpes simplex virus, type 1 (HSV-1) and has a high rate of death.
Herpes simplex encephalitis, the most common form of sporadic encephalitis in western countries, is a disease with significantly high mortality.
Herpes simplex encephalitis is responsible for 10 percent of all encephalitis cases and is the main cause of sporadic, fatal encephalitis.
Craniosynostosis usually occurs by chance (sporadic).
Mutations that inactivate the RET gene are the most frequent, occurring in 50 percent of familial cases (cases which run in families) and 15 to 20 percent of sporadic (non-familial) cases.
However, those contractions are known as Braxton Hicks, sporadic uterine contractions named after the first doctor to describe them in 1872.
A lot of the news sites are getting sporadic service atm.
Outbreaks of parvovirus tend to occur in the late winter and early spring, but there may also be sporadic cases of the disease any time throughout the year.
Mumps is another example of a sporadic cause.
Viruses that respond to acyclovir include herpes simplex, the most common cause of sporadic (non-epidemic) encephalitis in the United States.
This is called a sporadic occurrence and accounts for approximately 20 percent of cases of nail-patella syndrome.
Mild and sporadic symptoms can be managed with observation, and disabling GI flare-ups can be controlled with prednisone.
Loose, sporadic stitchery may indicate less-than-quality craftsmanship.
Garage sales can be good sources for finding used books, although the selection is often very sporadic.
The list of Soap Opera Digest Award winners is both long and sporadic, as it follows the fanaticism of both daytime and primetime soap opera viewers.
For those outside New York City, the Ananda Marga Foundation maintains a website where local studios can be found that offer either classes on a regular basis or sporadic workshops.
All of the programs make sporadic sales pitches for additional products somewhere in the middle or at the end of your prep work before you create your final forms.
If your work is very minimal or sporadic, verify that your business isn't considered a hobby under IRS rules.
New users and sporadic users would be leaves, whereas senior members who stayed online would be ultrapeers.
Someone beat on the door across the hall loud enough for Bianca to hear over the TV and sporadic thunder.
Nevertheless we find some sporadic and tentative critical efforts or questions.
The CryoSat program seeks to replace sporadic submarine missions by continual monitoring of the ice freeboard, from which thickness will be derived.
Apart from hearing sporadic gunfire the day was pretty quiet.
There was sporadic gunfire at this stage - bursts of automatic gunfire, from time to time, interspersed with single shots.
The relative excess of valine homozygotes in sporadic CJD aged less than 50 years is unexpected.
I am currently working on a project to detect sporadic recombination in multiple DNA sequence alignments.