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Webster 1913 Edition
Relapsing
Re-laps′ing
,Adj.
Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state.
Relapsing fever
(Med.)
, an acute, epidemic, contagious fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia, and some other regions. It is marked by one or two remissions of the fever, by articular and muscular pains, and by the presence, during the paroxism of spiral bacterium (
Spirochaete
) in the blood. It is not usually fatal. Called also famine fever
, and recurring fever
.Webster 1828 Edition
Relapsing
RELAPS'ING
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