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INGRAVESCENT

\ɪnɡɹˈe͡ɪvsənt], \ɪnɡɹˈe‍ɪvsənt], \ɪ_n_ɡ_ɹ_ˈeɪ_v_s_ə_n_t]\

Definitions of INGRAVESCENT

1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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Attended by symptoms which increase steadily in severity; as I. apoplexy.

1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
By Alexander Duane

(medieval). (Of disease &c.) growing worse. So ingravescence n. [Latin]

1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
By Sir Augustus Henry

Gradually increasing in strength.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

Increasing gradually in severity. [Lat.]

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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