intermittent claudication

1. 1.

   lameness due to pain in leg muscles because the blood supply is inadequate; pain subsides with rest

   Broaderlameness

Questions about intermittent claudication

What does intermittent claudication mean?

intermittent claudication means "lameness due to pain in leg muscles because the blood supply is inadequate; pain subsides with rest".

Is intermittent claudication a common word?

intermittent claudication is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.