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单词 delitescence
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delitescencen.

Brit. /ˌdɛlᵻˈtɛsns/, U.S. /ˌdɛləˈtɛs(ə)ns/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin dēlitēscent- , dēlitēscens , -ence suffix.
Etymology: < classical Latin dēlitēscent-, dēlitēscens (see delitescent adj.): see -ence suffix. Compare later delitescent adj.Compare post-classical Latin delitescentia concealment (16th cent. in British and continental sources). In the specific medical use in sense 2a after French délitescence (1814 or earlier in this sense; 1503 in Middle French in the general sense ‘concealment’).
1. The state or condition of being hidden; concealment; seclusion; (also) latency, dormancy. Now somewhat rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [noun] > concealed condition
hiding?c1225
concealment1608
latency1615
delitescence1632
concealedness1635
latentness1660
abscondment1694
delitescencya1697
occultation1758
latence1794
caving1867
1632 R. Winterton tr. J. Gerhard Golden Chaine Divine Aphorismes xviii. 291 We hold no Locall Inclosing of the Body into the Bread, or the Bloud into the Wine;..nor any Delitescence, concealement, or lying-hid of the Body under the Bread.
1776 S. Johnson Lett. to Mrs. Thrale 22 May To sooth him into inactivity or delitescence.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xxx. 213 The obscuration, the delitescence of mental activities.
1969 J. Singer tr. I. J. Singer Steel & Iron iv. 52 Occasionally he read in the public library, but the silent hall, the imperturbable readers, the padding librarians, and the musty delitescence in the midst of all the turmoil and excitement depressed and annoyed him.
2014 A. K. B. Kumar All that glitters is not God 315 She fell back to the rear rank. In delitescence, she peered at the head of her one-time lover.
2. Medicine.
a. Sudden cessation or resolution of an incipient inflammatory process. Obsolete.
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1820 London Med. & Physical Jrnl. 43 62 Inflammation of the sanguiferous vessels may be dissipated at the end of a certain period; and this is termed delitescence, or resolution.
1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 46 Resolution may take place very quickly, this being termed delitescence.
1913 W. A. Bryan Princ. Surg. iv. 107 Delitescence is the cutting short of a inflammatory process or an abortive inflammation.
b. The interval between the entrance of a disease-causing agent into the body and the first appearance of symptoms or signs of the disease; the incubation period or latent stage of a disease. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > stage of disease > incubation
delitescence1833
incubation1835
incubation-period1879
1833 J. L. Bardsley in J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. II. 492/1 In general the period of delitescence in genuine hydrophobia is seldom shorter than forty days.
1886 C. Heath Dict. Pract. Surg. I. 762/1 The latent stage, or delitescence, is not marked by any characteristic symptoms.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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