"recrudescence" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌɹiːkɹuːˈdɛs(ə)ns/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌɹɛ-/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌɹikɹuˈdɛs(ə)ns/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-recrudescence.wav Forms: recrudescences [plural]
Etymology: From Late Latin recrudescentia, from Latin recrūdēscēns, present participle of recrūdēscere (“to recrudesce”), from recrūdēscō (“to become raw again”); from re- (“again”) + crūdēscō (“to grow harsh or violent; to become worse”) (from crūdus (“bleeding, bloody, raw”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“blood outside the body”)) + -ēscō (suffix forming verbs indicating a becoming of something)). The word is cognate with French recrudescence, Italian recrudescenza, Spanish recrudescencia, recrudecimiento. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*krewh₂-}}, {{der|en|LL.|recrudescentia}} Late Latin recrudescentia, {{der|en|la|recrūdēscēns}} Latin recrūdēscēns, {{glossary|present}} present, {{glossary|participle}} participle, {{der|en|ine-pro|*krewh₂-||blood outside the body}} Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“blood outside the body”), {{cog|fr|recrudescence}} French recrudescence, {{cog|it|recrudescenza}} Italian recrudescenza, {{cog|es|recrudescencia}} Spanish recrudescencia Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} recrudescence (countable and uncountable, plural recrudescences)
  1. The condition or state being recrudescent; the condition of something (often undesirable) breaking out again, or re-emerging after temporary abatement or suppression. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: recrudency [archaic], reincrudation [obsolete] Translations (condition or state of being recrudescent): Wiedererstarken [neuter] (German)
    Sense id: en-recrudescence-en-noun-wltdZ4Hi Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -escence, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 27 22 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -escence: 57 24 19 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 59 23 18 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 55 22 16 2 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 54 24 17 1 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 65 18 17 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 65 19 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 66 20 14 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 64 20 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 59 19 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 66 19 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 66 19 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 65 20 15 Disambiguation of 'condition or state of being recrudescent': 89 7 4
  2. (medicine, by extension) The acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement. Tags: broadly, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Medicine Translations (acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement): рецидив (recidiv) [masculine] (Bulgarian), recrudescence [feminine] (French), რეციდივი (recidivi) (Georgian), επανεμφάνιση (epanemfánisi) [feminine] (Greek), υποτροπή (ypotropí) [feminine] (Greek), recrudescenza [feminine] (Italian), рециди́в (recidív) [masculine] (Russian), обостре́ние (obostrénije) [neuter] (Russian), recrudecimiento [masculine] (Spanish), recrudescencia [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-recrudescence-en-noun-hDGV5oEK Topics: medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement': 7 91 2
  3. (botany) The production of a fresh shoot from a ripened spike. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Botany
    Sense id: en-recrudescence-en-noun--ThBEmpJ Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: recurrence, reemergence Related terms: recrudency [archaic], recrudesce, recrudescency, recrudescent, reincrudation

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "High serum melatonin concentrations generally suppress reproduction in male squamates. Pinealectomy, which eliminates most melatonin secretion, induces testicular recrudescence in male green anoles, Anolis carolinensis, in autumn, but not in summer[…]. Injected melatonin does not inhibit testicular recrudescence in pinealectomized males, but does so in intact males[…].",
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          "text": "Very probably however, ſuppoſing Mr. Dwight's Account to be Fact, not more than one Conſtitution in one Million is liable to ſuch repeated and diſtant Recrudeſcences of this Diſeaſe.",
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          "text": "In other cases the wound opens of itself, and discharges a peculiar matter. Something similar is known to take place in traumatic tetanus; and although in this affection, as well as in hydrophobia, we cannot explain why the phenomenon of recrudescence does not occur in many fatal examples, yet we ought not therefore to deny that in those cases in which it does appear, the connexion between the recrudescence and the disease is most remarkable.",
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          "text": "[Frédéric] Kirschleger describes a tuft of leaves as occurring on the apex of the flowering spike after the maturation of the fruit in Plantago, and a similar growth frequently takes place in the common wallflower, in Antirrhinum majus, &c. In cases where a renewal of growth in the axis of inflorescence has taken place after the ripening of the fruit, the French botanists use the term recrudescence, but the growth in question by no means always occurs after the ripening of the fruit, but frequently before.",
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      },
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        "3": "recrūdēscēns"
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        "3": "*krewh₂-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "blood outside the body"
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      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "recrudescence"
      },
      "expansion": "French recrudescence",
      "name": "cog"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "recrudescenza"
      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "recrudescencia"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish recrudescencia",
      "name": "cog"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "From Late Latin recrudescentia, from Latin recrūdēscēns, present participle of recrūdēscere (“to recrudesce”), from recrūdēscō (“to become raw again”); from re- (“again”) + crūdēscō (“to grow harsh or violent; to become worse”) (from crūdus (“bleeding, bloody, raw”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“blood outside the body”)) + -ēscō (suffix forming verbs indicating a becoming of something)). The word is cognate with French recrudescence, Italian recrudescenza, Spanish recrudescencia, recrudecimiento.",
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        "plural"
      ]
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      "word": "reemergence"
    }
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      "word": "recrudency"
    },
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      "word": "recrudesce"
    },
    {
      "word": "recrudescency"
    },
    {
      "word": "recrudescent"
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      "word": "reincrudation"
    }
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        {
          "ref": "1887, Duke of Argyll [i.e., George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll], “The Age of Covenants”, in Scotland as It Was and as It Is, 2nd edition, Edinburgh: David Douglas, →OCLC, page 134:",
          "text": "The population of particular countries, or districts of country, may be given up to less improving pursuits than those of agriculture. A recrudescence of barbarism may condemn it [i.e., land] to chronic poverty and waste.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 204:",
          "text": "A blinding sunlight drowned all this at times in a sudden recrudescence of glare.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996 spring, Albert E. Gunn, George O. Zenner, Jr., “Religious Discrimination in the Selection of Medical Students: A Case Study”, in Issues in Law and Medicine, volume 11, number 4, Terre Haute, Ind.: National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled and the Horatio R. Storer Foundation, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, pages 363–378; republished in The Linacre Quarterly: Journal of the Catholic Medical Association, volume 63, number 3, Wynnewood, Pa.: Catholic Medical Association, August 1996, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 52:",
          "text": "Of course, bad habits die hard, and even with the new policy there were recrudescences of the prior practices in the following years.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, James U. Van Dyke, “Cues for Reproduction in Squamate Reptiles”, in Justin L. Rheubert, Dustin S. Siegel, Stanley E. Trauth, editors, Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Lizards and Tuatara (Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny; 10), Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 119:",
          "text": "High serum melatonin concentrations generally suppress reproduction in male squamates. Pinealectomy, which eliminates most melatonin secretion, induces testicular recrudescence in male green anoles, Anolis carolinensis, in autumn, but not in summer[…]. Injected melatonin does not inhibit testicular recrudescence in pinealectomized males, but does so in intact males[…].",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The condition or state being recrudescent; the condition of something (often undesirable) breaking out again, or re-emerging after temporary abatement or suppression."
      ],
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          "recrudescent",
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          "break out"
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          "re-emerging",
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        ],
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          "temporary",
          "temporary"
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          "abatement",
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          "suppression",
          "suppression"
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        {
          "tags": [
            "archaic"
          ],
          "word": "recrudency"
        },
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          "tags": [
            "obsolete"
          ],
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        }
      ],
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        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Medicine"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1754, J[ames] Kirkpatrick, “Section II. Of the Variolous Fuel, or Internal Inherent Cause of the Small Pox.”, in The Analysis of Inoculation: Comprizing the History, Theory, and Practice of It: With an Occasional Consideration of the Most Remarkable Appearances in the Small Pox, London: Printed for J. Millan, […]; J[ames] Buckland, […]; and R[alph] Griffiths, […], →OCLC, page 34:",
          "text": "Very probably however, ſuppoſing Mr. Dwight's Account to be Fact, not more than one Conſtitution in one Million is liable to ſuch repeated and diſtant Recrudeſcences of this Diſeaſe.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1833, J. L. Bardsley, “HYDROPHOBIA”, in edited by John Forbes, Alexander Tweedie, and John Conolly, The Cyclopædia of Practical Medicine; […], volumes II (EME–ISC), London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper; Baldwin and Cradock, […]; Whittaker, Treacher, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 484, column 1:",
          "text": "In other cases the wound opens of itself, and discharges a peculiar matter. Something similar is known to take place in traumatic tetanus; and although in this affection, as well as in hydrophobia, we cannot explain why the phenomenon of recrudescence does not occur in many fatal examples, yet we ought not therefore to deny that in those cases in which it does appear, the connexion between the recrudescence and the disease is most remarkable.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1877, Charles Alexander Gordon, “Recurring Epidemics; Recrudescence”, in Notes on the Hygiene of Cholera for Ready Reference, London: Bailliere, Tindall, & Cox; Madras: Gantz Brothers, […]; Bombay; Calcutta: Thacker & Co., →OCLC, paragraph 5, page 10:",
          "text": "It becomes very difficult under many circumstances to distinguish between an epidemic solely due to recrudescence of the cholera principle retained from previous outbreak, and an epidemic the result of fresh introduction.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "The acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement."
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        {
          "ref": "[1869, Maxwell T[ylden] Masters, “Prolification”, in Vegetable Teratology, an Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants (Ray Society; XLV), London: Published for the Ray Society by Robert Hardwicke, […], →OCLC, book I (Deviations from Ordinary Arrangement), part III (Alterations of Position), page 104:",
          "text": "[Frédéric] Kirschleger describes a tuft of leaves as occurring on the apex of the flowering spike after the maturation of the fruit in Plantago, and a similar growth frequently takes place in the common wallflower, in Antirrhinum majus, &c. In cases where a renewal of growth in the axis of inflorescence has taken place after the ripening of the fruit, the French botanists use the term recrudescence, but the growth in question by no means always occurs after the ripening of the fruit, but frequently before.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1872, Robert Holland, “Monstrous Plants in 1872”, in J[ohn] E[llor] Taylor, editor, Hardwicke’s Science-Gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, volume VIII, number 96, London: Robert Hardwicke, […], published 1873, →OCLC, page 271, column 1:",
          "text": "A great many of the scapes have furnished examples of \"recrudescence,\" a few flowers having been produced amongst the ripening capsules; but fresh flower-stalks have also continued to shoot up from the root, and at the time I write (Oct. 4) I see there is one very pretty bunch of flowers upon a last year's seedling plant.",
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        }
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        "(botany) The production of a fresh shoot from a ripened spike."
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      ],
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      ]
    },
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "condition or state of being recrudescent",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Wiedererstarken"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "recidiv",
      "sense": "acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "рецидив"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "recrudescence"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "recidivi",
      "sense": "acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement",
      "word": "რეციდივი"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "epanemfánisi",
      "sense": "acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "επανεμφάνιση"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "ypotropí",
      "sense": "acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "υποτροπή"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "recrudescenza"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "recidív",
      "sense": "acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "рециди́в"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "obostrénije",
      "sense": "acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "обостре́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "recrudecimiento"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "recrudescencia"
    }
  ],
  "word": "recrudescence"
}

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