recrudescent.

Returning to activity or worsening after a period of decline.

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• recrudescent infection

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The recrudescent infection surprised the physician.

A recrudescent outbreak closed the ward.

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Primary category: horror. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a morphological or medical classification. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.