ingravescent
/ˌɪnɡrəˈvɛs(ə)nt
/adjective Medicine
(Of a condition or symptom) gradually increasing in severity.Radiation-induced arteriopathy is an ingravescent chronic lesion involving a myointimal hyperplasia and a remarkable fibrosis of the arterial outer layers....
- The diagnosis of Crohn's disease makes surgery mandatory in any form of the disease, because it is ingravescent.
Derivatives
ingravescence
/ noun ...- It is known that thus produced PGD2 causes bronchoconstriction and vasodilation and involves in ingravescence of allergies.
- We formed a medical examination squad to achieve the early detection and prevention of the ingravescence of chronic disease.
Origin
Early 19th century: from Latin ingravescent- 'growing heavy or worse', from the verb ingravescere (based on gravis 'heavy').