Recrudescence

Quick meaning: Recrudescence is a noun meaning (medicine, by extension) The acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement.

Meaning

(medicine, by extension) The acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement.

More Meanings

1. (botany) The production of a fresh shoot from a ripened spike.
2. The condition or state being recrudescent; the condition of something (often undesirable) breaking out again, or re-emerging after temporary abatement or suppression.

Example Sentences

A blinding sunlight drowned all this at times in a sudden recrudescence of glare.

Of course, bad habits die hard, and even with the new policy there were recrudescences of the prior practices in the following years.

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 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.

Word Forms

• recrudescences

Synonyms for recrudescence

Depending on context, synonyms include recrudency, reincrudation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include resurgence, revival, re-emergence, escalation, increase, intensification.

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