Definition of Recrudescent

1. Adjective. The revival of an unfortunate situation after a period of abatement. "The patient presented with a case of recrudescent gastralgia"

Similar to: Revived
Derivative terms: Recrudescence

Definition of Recrudescent

1. a. Growing raw, sore, or painful again.

Definition of Recrudescent

1. Adjective. breaking out again or reemerging after temporary abatement or suppression ¹

2. Adjective. (archaic) growing raw, sore, or painful again ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Recrudescent

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Recrudescent

1. Becoming active again, relating to a recrudescence. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recrudescent

recrossed
recrosses
recrossing
recrossings
recrown
recrowned
recrowning
recrowns
recrudency
recrudesce
recrudesced
recrudescence
recrudescences
recrudescencies
recrudescency
recrudescent (current term)
recrudescent typhus
recrudescent typhus fever
recrudesces
recrudescing
recruit
recruitable
recruited
recruitee
recruitees
recruiter
recruiters
recruiting
recruiting-sergeant
recruiting response

Literary usage of Recrudescent

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

1. Medico-Chirurgical Transactions by Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London (1904)
"Firstly, it must be borne in mind that cases of protracted and recrudescent infection are relatively infrequent, representing only a very small percentage ..."

2. Transactions of the Epidemiological Society of London by Epidemiological Society of London (1887)
"In the course of my inquiries I have met with several persons who, while suffering from what I have spoken of as recrudescent diphtheria, have, apparently, ..."

3. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"After-images or recrudescent memories, often rising thus and thus only from the ... I quote first two examples of recrudescent memories:— I had been ..."

4. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"After-images or recrudescent memories, often rising thus and thus only from the ... I quote first two examples of recrudescent memories :— I had been ..."

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