RECRUDESCENT
\ɹɪkɹuːdˈɛsənt], \ɹɪkɹuːdˈɛsənt], \ɹ_ɪ_k_ɹ_uː_d_ˈɛ_s_ə_n_t]\
Definitions of RECRUDESCENT
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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Recrudescence.
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Growing raw, sore, or painful again.
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Breaking out again after temporary abatement or supression; as, a recrudescent epidemic.
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Recrudescence.
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Growing raw, sore, or painful again.
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Breaking out again after temporary abatement or supression; as, a recrudescent epidemic.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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r[=e]-kr[=oo]-des'ent, adj. growing sore or painful again.--v.i. RECRUDESCE', to become raw again: to be renewed.--ns. RECRUDES'CENCE, RECRU'DENCY, RECRUDES'CENCY, the state of becoming sore again: a state of relapse: (med.) increased activity after recovery: (bot.) the production of a fresh shoot from a ripened spike. [L. recrudescens, -entis, pr.p. of recrudesc[)e]re, to become raw again--re-, again, crudesc[)e]re, to become raw--crudis, crude.]
By Thomas Davidson
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