recrudescence
/ˌɹikɹuˈdɛs(ə)ns/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.33 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The condition or state being recrudescent; the condition of something (often undesirable) breaking out again, or re-emerging after temporary abatement or suppression.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "A blinding sunlight drowned all this at times in a sudden recrudescence of glare."
- "Of course, bad habits die hard, and even with the new policy there were recrudescences of the prior practices in the following years."
- "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[…]."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
From Late Latin recrūdēscentia, from Latin recrūdēscēns, present participle of recrūdēscere (“to recrudesce”), from recrūdēscō (“(of a wound) to break open again; (of a fight, sedition,...) to break out again, be rekindled”); 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.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *krewh₂-, recrūdēscentia, recrūdēscēns
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌɹikɹuˈdɛs(ə)ns/
- British English: /ˌɹiːkɹuːˈdɛs(ə)ns/