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recrudescence
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recrudescence \Re`cru*des"cence\ (r?`kr?*d?s"sens), Recrudescency \Re`cru*des`cen*cy\ (-d?s"sen*s?), n. [Cf. F. recrudescence.]
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The state or condition of being recrudescent.
A recrudescence of barbarism may condemn it [land] to chronic poverty and waste.
--Duke of Argyll. (Med.) Increased severity of a disease after temporary remission.
--Dunglison.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1707, "a becoming raw again, a breaking out afresh," from stem of Latin recrudescere "re-open" (of wounds), literally "become raw again," from re- "again" (see re-) + crudescere, from crudus "raw" (see crude (adj.)) + inchoative suffix -escere. Meaning "revival" is from 1906. Related: Recrudescency (1650s); recrudescent (1726).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The state or condition of being recrudescent. 2 (context medicine English) the acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement
WordNet
n. a return of something after a period of abatement; "a recrudescence of racism"; "a recrudescence of the symptoms"
Wikipedia
Recrudescence is the revival of material or behavior that had previously been stabilized, settled, or diminished. In medicine, it is the recurrence of symptoms in a patient whose blood stream infection has previously been at such a low level as not to be clinically demonstrable or cause symptoms, or the reappearance of a disease after it has been quiescent. For example, a clinical attack after parasites in the blood have dropped markedly and the disease has subsided.
The Plasmodium parasites, which are responsible for the disease malaria, can persist in the blood without causing apparent symptoms for a few months. It occurs mainly due to suppression of the immune system. This is an important difference between recrudescence and relapse (which occurs due to reactivation of hypnozoites in the liver).
The bovine viral diarrhoea virus ( bovine virus diarrhea) is said to be recrudescent for some time after clinical signs have abated, because antibodies plateau c. weeks 10–12, and are not lifelong, auto infection may potentially occur in the acutely infected non-pregnant animal. However this is not thought to contribute greatly to the pathogenesis of the disease.
Other diseases that may recur following a short or long period of quiescence include shingles (after chicken pox), oral herpes and genital herpes, and Brill–Zinsser disease (after epidemic typhus).
Usage examples of "recrudescence".
Every successive revolutionary disturbance in Naples saw a recrudescence of brigandage down to the unification of 1860-1861, and then it was years before the Italian government rooted it out.
The result of this recrudescence of affection was the appearance of two pontifical bulls, converting the towns of Nepi and Sermoneta into duchies: one was bestowed on Gian Bargia, an illegitimate child of the pope, who was not the son of either of his mistresses, Rosa Vanozza or Giulia Farnese, the other an Don Roderigo of Aragon, son of Lucrezia and Alfonso: the lands of the Colonna were in appanage to the two duchies.
For, not only did Babygirl suffer such insult and ignominy at the hands of the very man who, of all the world, was most responsible for her emotional well-being, not only was she groggy in the aftermath of only dimly remembered physical trauma, running the risk, as she sensed, of infection, sterility, and a recrudescence of her old female maladies-not only this but she was obliged to clean up the mess next morning, who else.
Harsch raised his hand to Cluet, a recrudescence of hope making him gangle again.
This was closer than ever he remembered approaching Quarmal, and strange qualms filled his mind, recrudescences of childish old wives’ tales.