"recedent" meaning in English

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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1851, Russell Thacher Trall, The Hydropathic Encyclopedia, page 123:",
          "text": "The recedent or retrograde form is marked by a sudden subsidence of the inflammatory state of the joints, succeeded immediately by an affection of some internal part, where is thenceforth the seat of the morbid manifestations.",
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        "Synonym of receding."
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