Definition of Tardive

1. Adjective. Late-occurring (especially with reference to symptoms of a disease). "Tardive dyskinesia"

Similar to: Late, Later

Definition of Tardive

1. Adjective. (medicine) belated (of symptoms etc.) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tardive

1. having symptoms that develop slowly [adj]

Medical Definition of Tardive

1. Marked by lateness, late, said of a disease in which the characteristic lesion is late in appearing. Origin: Fr. Tardy = late This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tardive

tarcels
tard
tardation
tardied
tardier
tardies
tardiest
tardigrada
tardigrade
tardigrades
tardigradous
tardily
tardiness
tardinesses
tardity
tardive (current term)
tardive cyanosis
tardive dyskinesia
tardive dyskinesias
tardively
tardo
tards
tardy
tardy slip
tardy slips
tardying
tardyon
tardyonic
tardyons
tare

Literary usage of Tardive

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1. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"Royal Duke; Royale tardive, of the French. The general habit of this tree resembles that of the May Duke. It is a good bearer, and arrives at maturity from ..."

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