recrudescence
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recrudescence
- /ˌɹiːkɹuːˈdɛs(ə)ns/ UK
- /ˌɹɛ-/ UK
- /ˌɹikɹuˈdɛs(ə)ns/ US
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From Late Latin recrūdēscentia, from Latin recrūdēscēns, present participle of recrūdēscere (“to recrudesce”), from recrūdēscō (“(of a wound) to break open again; (of a fight, sedition,...) to break out again, be rekindled”); from re- (“again”) + crūdēscō (“to grow harsh or violent; to become worse”) (from crūdus (“bleeding, bloody, raw”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“blood outside the body”)) + -ēscō (suffix forming verbs indicating a becoming of something)). The word is cognate with French recrudescence, Italian recrudescenza, Spanish recrudescencia, recrudecimiento.
noun recrudescences
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The condition or state being recrudescent; the condition of something (often undesirable) breaking out again, or re-emerging after temporary abatement or suppression.
The population of particular countries, or districts of country, may be given up to less improving pursuits than those of agriculture. A recrudescence of barbarism may condemn it [i.e., land] to chronic poverty and waste.
Similar: recrudency, reincrudation
- The acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement. Very probably however, ſuppoſing Mr. Dwight's Account to be Fact, not more than one Conſtitution in one Million is liable to ſuch repeated and diſtant Recrudeſcences of this Diſeaſe.
- The production of a fresh shoot from a ripened spike. [Frédéric] Kirschleger describes a tuft of leaves as occurring on the apex of the flowering spike after the maturation of the fruit in Plantago, and a similar growth frequently takes place in the common wallflower, in Antirrhinum majus, &c. In cases where a renewal of growth in the axis of infloresc
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noun condition or state of being recrudescent
| Deutsch | Wiedererstarken |
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noun acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement
| Español | recrudecimiento, recrudescencia |
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| Français | recrudescence |
| Italiano | recrudescenza |
| Ελληνικά | επανεμφάνιση epanemfánisi, υποτροπή ypotropí |
| Русский | рециди́в recidív, обостре́ние obostrénije |
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