Recrudescence

Recrudescence
Reappearance of a disease after it has been quiescent. A new outbreak or the return of a disease. As, for example, the recrudescence of a pansinusitis (sinusitis, an infection involving all of the sinuses). The original meaning of "recrudence" was to become raw or sore again. It came from the Latin "crudus" (raw) via "recrudescere" (to become raw again). "Recrudescence" has broadened out, so there can now be the recrudescence of a rash, of arthritis, etc.
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Resumption of a morbid process or its symptoms after a period of remission. [L. re-crudesco, to become raw again, break out afresh, fr. crudus, raw, harsh]

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re·cru·des·cence .rē-krü-'des-ən(t)s n increased severity of a disease after a remission also recurrence of a disease after a brief intermission compare RELAPSE

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n.
a fresh outbreak of a disorder in a patient after a period during which its signs and symptoms had died down and recovery seemed to be taking place.

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re·cru·des·cence (re″kroo-desґəns) [L. recrudescere to become sore again] the recurrence of symptoms after a temporary abatement. Cf. relapse. recrudescent adj

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