RELAPSE
\ɹɪlˈaps], \ɹɪlˈaps], \ɹ_ɪ_l_ˈa_p_s]\
Definitions of RELAPSE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To slide or turn back into a former state or practice; to fall back from some condition attained; -- generally in a bad sense, as from a state of convalescence or amended condition; as, to relapse into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism; -- sometimes in a good sense; as, to relapse into slumber after being disturbed.
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To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide.
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A sliding or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or morals; backsliding; the state of having fallen back.
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One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again.
By Oddity Software
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To slide or turn back into a former state or practice; to fall back from some condition attained; -- generally in a bad sense, as from a state of convalescence or amended condition; as, to relapse into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism; -- sometimes in a good sense; as, to relapse into slumber after being disturbed.
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To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide.
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A sliding or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or morals; backsliding; the state of having fallen back.
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One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again.
By Noah Webster.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A falling into a former bad state; return of a disease after partial recovery.
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To fall back into illness after partial recovery; return to a former bad state or habit.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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To slide, sink or fall back: to return to a former state or practice.
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A falling back into a former bad state.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The return of a disease, during, or shortly after, convalescence. The French use Rechute in this sense; and Recidive (Morbus recidivus) for the sense; and return of a complaint, at a greater or less period after the complete recovery of health. The terms Relapsing fever, Short fever, Fiveday fever. Seven-day fever, Bilious Remittent fever. Remitting Icteric fever, and Mild Yellow fever, (F.) Fievre a rechute, have been given to a form of continued fever, which has occasionally appeared epidemically, as in Edinburgh, in 1843 and 1847, and was generally attended with icteric symptoms. The main phenomena disappeared at about the end of a week; but in many cases a relapse occurred about the end of a fortnight. Pew died of the affection.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland