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Definition of Quiescent
1. Adjective. Not active or activated. "The quiescent level of centimeter wave-length solar radiation"
2. Adjective. Marked by a state of tranquil repose. "The quiescent melancholy of the town"
3. Adjective. Being quiet or still or inactive.
4. Adjective. (pathology) causing no symptoms. "A quiescent tumor"
Definition of Quiescent
1. a. Being in a state of repose; at rest; still; not moving; as, a quiescent body or fluid.
2. n. A silent letter.
Definition of Quiescent
1. Adjective. Inactive, at rest, quiet. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Quiescent
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Quiescent
1. Marked by a state of inactivity or repose. Origin: L. Quiescent, part. Of quiescere = to be silent This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quiescent
Literary usage of Quiescent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1891)
"Where a tumor is present in the quiescent stage, or has been decidedly felt after
the acuteness of the attack has passed off, more urgency is present, ..."
2. Footnotes to Evolution: A Series of Popular Addresses on the Evolution of Life by David Starr Jordan, Edwin Grant Conklin, Frank Mace McFarland, James Perrin Smith (1898)
"The most striking cases of degeneration are those of quiescent animals, and
parasitic animals and plants, as compared with their free-swimming self- ..."
3. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"The sampling of liquids is divided into the three following classes; .sampling
liquids in quiescent state, sampling liquids in motion, ^. ..."
4. The Sun by Charles Augustus Young (1895)
"Classification of Prominences as quiescent, and eruptive or metallic.—Isolated
Clouds.—Violence of Motion.—Observations of August 6, 1872. ..."
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