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▪ I. relapsing, vbl. n.|rɪˈlæpsɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. relapse.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xvi. (1623) 834 Conuicted of periurious relapsing. 1648Milton Tenure Kings Wks. 1851 IV. 477 The Presbyterians..cannot with all their shifting and relapsing, wash off the guiltiness from thir own hands. 1772Priestley in Phil. Trans. LXII. 194, I had instances of the relapsing of this restored air to its former noxious state. 1865Reader No. 124. 540/3 The relapsings and rallyings of Christendom.
▪ II. reˈlapsing, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
a. That relapses.
1638Mayne Lucian (1664) 211 Forced to roll relapsing stones against steep hills. 1653G. Daniel Idyll., Occas. Refl. 20 Dead wth y⊇ Terror of relapsing crimes. 1864Pusey Lect. Daniel vii. 456 God..won Nebuchadnezzar, as he does so many relapsing Christians.
b. relapsing fever, either of two similar kinds of fever characterized by relapses, caused by spirochætes of the genus Borrelia and transmitted respectively by lice and by ticks.
1849Dublin Q. Jrnl. Med. Sci. VIII. 50 This fever has been well called a relapsing fever; that is, it was made up of two parts, crisis being very generally present at the termination of each. 1865Morn. Star 20 Apr., Two forms of fever which are known in this country as relapsing fever and typhus. 1877Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 131 Relapsing fever is an acute specific disease,..and it is highly infectious. 1936Lancet 22 Feb. 448/1 Recent investigation of a small outbreak of relapsing fever in Kfar Vitkin, south of Hedera in the coastal plain, showed that all infections could be traced to a cave infested with Ornithodorus papillipes. 1966Dunlop & Alstead Textbk. Med. Treatment (ed. 10) 218 Tetracycline..is the drug of choice, although subsequent relapses of tick-borne relapsing fever due to Bor. duttoni may be experienced. 1974Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. III. xii. 75/1 The spirochaetes responsible for louse-borne relapsing fever is Borr[elia] recurrentis and for the tick-borne form, Borr. duttoni. Ibid., Louse-borne relapsing fever is a disease of cold weather which occurs in epidemic form usually in the wake of disasters such as wars or earthquakes. |