recrudescence

Etymology

From Latin recrūdēscō (“I become raw again”); from re- + crūdēscō (“I become harsh or raw”).

Noun

recrudescence (countable and uncountable, plural recrudescences)

1. The state or condition of being recrudescent.
   • Duke of Argyll

     A recrudescence of barbarism may condemn it [land] to chronic poverty and waste.

2. (medicine) the acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement

Noun

recrudescence f (plural recrudescences)

1. recrudescence
2. an instance of recrudescence

Further reading

• “recrudescence” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).