recrudescentadj.

1722 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum (ed. 2) 379/1 Recrudescent, when any Distemper returns that was gone off; as the Paroxysms of Intermittents.

1879 Lancet 26 July 146/2 The insignificant number of deaths ascribed to this cause..is certainly not made up of true ‘relapsing fever’, but most probably of enteric fever, the protracted, recrudescent nature of which have suggested the mistake.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 898 These recrudescent pains gradually disappear again.

1935 Trans. Royal Soc. Trop. Med. & Hygiene 29 119 The classical group might be classified on a clinical basis as epidemic, endemic, and recrudescent, the last to cover the modern conception of Brill's disease.

1975 Nature 13 Nov. 149/1 Two died of recrudescent malaria.

2006 Jrnl. Infectious Dis. 194 917 HIV-1-infected patients with malaria with a CD4 cell count <300 cells/microL have a higher risk of experiencing a recrudescent infection.

1833 ‘C. Sly’ Sayings & Doings at Tremont House 197 We were getting quite black in the face, from such recrudescent merriment.

1874 Catholic World Dec. 290/1 Now, this pagan pantheism recrudescent is the one permanent type amid the endless variations of modern German sophistry.

1892 R. Wallace in Sc. Leader 12 July 7 The recrudescent protectionist.

1913 J. S. Thomson China Revolutionzed xiv. 282 The Russian advance is not an extinct volcano; one never knows when it will be recrudescent somewhere.

1941 W. J. Cash Mind of South iii. ii. 294 Nobody might be sure that..civilization might not completely collapse into the chaos of recrudescent and blood-drinking barbarism.

1963 C. Irwin Fair Gods & Stone Faces xix. 256 Every archaeologist who deals with the recrudescent past confronts the same possibility.

1997 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Aug. 7/3 Many of these entities are recrudescent from the world religions, since these have usually encompassed mediating spirits, celestial hierarchies and divine messengers.