Recrudescence

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  • n. The state or condition of being recrudescent.
  • n. the acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The state or condition of being recrudescent.
  • n. Increased severity of a disease after temporary remission.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The state of being recrudescent, or becoming raw or exacerbated again.
  • n. Hence A reopening; renewal; a coming into existence anew; a fresh outbreak.
  • n. In medicine, increased activity of a disease or morbid process after partial recovery.
  • n. In botany, the production of a fresh shoot from the top of a ripened spike.
  • n. Figuratively, a return; a re-appearance: as “The Recrudescence of Imray,” the original title of a story by Rudyard Kipling in “Mine Own People.”
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a return of something after a period of abatement
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    Hypernym
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    outbreak    irruption    eruption   
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