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delitescence|dɛlɪˈtɛsəns| [f. delitescent: see -ence. (In the medical sense used in F. by Paré in 16th c.)] 1. The condition of lying hid; latent state, concealment, seclusion.
1776Johnson Lett. to Mrs. Thrale 22 May, To sooth him into inactivity or delitescence. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xxx. (1870) II. 213 The obscuration, the delitescence of mental activities. 2. Med. a. ‘Term applied to the sudden disappearance of inflammation, or of its events, by resolution, no other part of the body being affected.’ b. ‘The period during which poisons, as those of rabies and smallpox, remain in the system before they produce visible symptoms’ (= incubation). Syd. Soc. Lex.
1835–6Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 513/2 This speedy termination of the disease has been called by the French writers delitescence. 1877Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 46 Resolution may take place very quickly, this being termed delitescence. |