To break out anew or come into renewed activity, as after a period of quiescence.
[Latin recrūdēscere, to grow raw again : re-, re- + crūdēscere, to get worse (from crūdus, raw).]
recrudescence re'cru·des'cence n.recrudescent re'cru·des'cent adj.
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[Latin recrūdēscere, to grow raw again : re-, re- + crūdēscere, to get worse (from crūdus, raw).]
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In her second column since returning from book leave, Maureen Dowd topped our alt-click list with recrudescing:
"The fundamentalist Taliban is recrudescing in Afghanistan"
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Posted August 14, 2005.
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Recurrence of clinical signs after temporary abatement; a recrudescence occurs after some days or weeks, a relapse after weeks or months.
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Recrudescence is 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 parasites, e.g. Plasmodium, 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).
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