recrudescence

Meaning

Noun

• The condition or state being recrudescent; the condition of something (often undesirable) breaking out again, or re-emerging after temporary abatement or suppression.
• The acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement.
• The production of a fresh shoot from a ripened spike.

Related

Broader meaning words

• recurrence
• reemergence

Origin

• From Late Latin recrudescentia, from Latin recrūdēscēns, present participle of recrūdēscere, from recrūdēscō; from re- + crūdēscō (from crūdus (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- ("blood outside the body")) + -ēscō). The word is cognate with French recrudescence, Italian recrudescenza, Spanish recrudescencia, recrudecimiento.