recrudesce
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re·cru·desce
(rē'krū-dĕs') 
intr.v., -desced, -desc·ing, -desc·es.
To break out anew or come into renewed activity, as after a period of quiescence.
recrudescent re'cru·des'cent adj.
intr.v., -desced, -desc·ing, -desc·es.
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.
Fowler's Modern English Usage:
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means in medical use 'the breaking out again of a disease', and in generalized use should be restricted to contexts in which something harmful or unwelcome recurs:
Cohen's piece represents a recrudescence of the worst forms of cold war liberalism—Dissent, 2002 [Old English (up to 1150)C].Fowler (1926) noted that the word was becoming fashionable as a simple synonym for 'revival' or 'reappearance' among journalists in his day. He called this a 'disgusting use' and we can see what he means when we come across such absurd uses as the following:
Both works, however, may be thought to share a secret, and a set of clues, which bear witness to the recrudescence of a hippy magic—K. Miller, 1989.
| recount, re-count, record, reconnoitre | |
| recto, rector, recur |
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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"
Link: Reformer Without Results - New York Times.
Posted August 14, 2005.
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Roget's Thesaurus:
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Saunders Veterinary Dictionary:
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recrudescence
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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Look up recrudescence in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Recrudescence 1. Revival of material or behavior that had previously quiesced.
2. A 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.
3. 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).
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, Brill-Zinsser disease (after epidemic typhus), etc.
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Roget's Thesaurus
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Saunders Veterinary Dictionary
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