Definition of Recrudescence

1. Noun. A return of something after a period of abatement. "A recrudescence of the symptoms"

Generic synonyms: Eruption, Irruption, Outbreak
Derivative terms: Recrudesce, Recrudescent

Definition of Recrudescence

1. n. The state or condition of being recrudescent.

Definition of Recrudescence

1. Noun. The state or condition of being recrudescent. ¹

2. Noun. (medicine) the acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Recrudescence

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Recrudescence

1. Reappearance of disease in a host whose infection has been quiescent. (05 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recrudescence

recriminators
recriminatory
recriticality
recross
recrossed
recrosses
recrossing
recrossings
recrown
recrowned
recrowning
recrowns
recrudency
recrudesce
recrudesced
recrudescence (current term)
recrudescences
recrudescencies
recrudescency
recrudescent
recrudescent typhus
recrudescent typhus fever
recrudesces
recrudescing
recruit
recruitable
recruited
recruitee
recruitees
recruiter

Literary usage of Recrudescence

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Literary Criticism from the Elizabethan Dramatists by John Tucker Murray, David Klein, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, William Winter, Rosamond Gilder, Felix Emmanuel Schelling, William Dean Howells, Mary Findlater, Jane Helen Findlater, Allan McAulay, William Randolph Hearst (1908)
"It cannot have escaped the reader that the drama- recrudescence tized romance of the reign of King Charles sought its effect not only by the delicate aroma ..."

2. Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642: A History of the Drama in England from the by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1908)
"It cannot have escaped the reader that the drama- recrudescence tized romance of the reign of King Charles sought its effect not only by the delicate aroma ..."

3. Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642: A History of the Drama in England from the by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1908)
"It cannot have escaped the reader that the drama- recrudescence tized romance of the reign of King Charles sought its effect not only by the delicate aroma ..."

4. A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages by Henry Charles Lea (1887)
"... that the troubles and limitations imposed on the Inquisition un< Philippe le Bel led to the recrudescence of a heresy which h been nearly extinguished. ..."

5. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1911)
"recrudescence of paganism. Cur. bit. GO: 415- 6. Ap. '11. Right to do wrong. A. Bierbower. Overland. . nB 66: 595-9. D. 40. Roman prayer and its relation to ..."

6. History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1656 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1903)
"The first weeks of its sittings were marked by an evident recrudescence of Royalist feeling. Before the end of Recru- July, we hear that ' conventicles for ..."

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