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prettygoodword) wrote2025-01-24 07:37 am
prettygoodword) wrote2025-01-24 07:37 am
recrudescence
recrudescence (ree-kroo-DES-uhns) - n., breaking out afresh or into renewed activity, often of something undesirable.
Such as a relapse of a disease, like malaria or post-Paxlovid COVID, though it's not limited to medical jargon. The word sounds like it has to do with something undesirable, with that -crude- in the middle -- and indeed, the two are from the same root: Latin crūdus, raw/bloody/undigested, though the shift to an idea of becoming worse was already there in Latin crūdēscō, even before they stuck an re-, again, in front, turned it into the verb recrūdēscere, and derived an adjective from the present participle recrūdēscēns.
---L.
Such as a relapse of a disease, like malaria or post-Paxlovid COVID, though it's not limited to medical jargon. The word sounds like it has to do with something undesirable, with that -crude- in the middle -- and indeed, the two are from the same root: Latin crūdus, raw/bloody/undigested, though the shift to an idea of becoming worse was already there in Latin crūdēscō, even before they stuck an re-, again, in front, turned it into the verb recrūdēscere, and derived an adjective from the present participle recrūdēscēns.
---L.
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