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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

retrocedens

, p. pr.]

Disposed or likely to retrocede; – said of diseases which go from one part of the body to another, as the gout.

See also: rétrocèdent

retrocedent ‎(comparative more retrocedent, superlative most retrocedent)

Tending to retrocede; moving backwards.
(medicine) Of gout, an attack in which surface symptoms such as joint inflammation disappear suddenly, and are replaced by affections of the internal organs.

retrōcēdent