| relapsing | Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state. <medicine> Relapsing fever, 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. Synonym: famine fever, and recurring fever. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| relapsing appendicitis | Repeated episodes of right lower quadrant abdominal pain attributed to recurrence of inflammation of the appendix in an individual who did not have an appendectomy for prior episodes. Synonym: relapsing appendicitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| relapsing fever | An acute infection characterised by recurrent episodes of pyrexia alternating with asymptomatic intervals of apparent recovery. This condition has worldwide distribution and is caused by spirochetes of the genus borrelia. (12 Dec 1998) |
| relapsing malaria | Renewal of clinical activity at some interval after the primary attack. (05 Mar 2000) |
| relapsing perichondritis | A degenerative disease of cartilage producing a bizarre form of arthritis, with collapse of the ears, the cartilaginous portion of the nose, and the tracheobronchial tree; death may occur from chronic infection or suffocation because of loss of stability in the tracheobronchial tree of autosomal origin. Synonym: chronic atrophic polychondritis, generalised chondromalacia, Meyenburg's disease, Meyenburg-Altherr-Uehlinger syndrome, relapsing perichondritis, systemic chondromalacia, von Meyenburg's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| relapsing polychondritis | A degenerative disease of cartilage producing a bizarre form of arthritis, with collapse of the ears, the cartilaginous portion of the nose, and the tracheobronchial tree; death may occur from chronic infection or suffocation because of loss of stability in the tracheobronchial tree of autosomal origin. Synonym: chronic atrophic polychondritis, generalised chondromalacia, Meyenburg's disease, Meyenburg-Altherr-Uehlinger syndrome, relapsing perichondritis, systemic chondromalacia, von Meyenburg's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Persian relapsing fever | A tick-borne relapsing fever, occurring in the Middle East, caused by Borrelia persica and transmitted by Ornithodoros tholozani and possibly by Ornithodoros lahorensis. Synonym: mianeh disease, mianeh fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| polychondritis, relapsing | An acquired disease of unknown aetiology, chronic course, and tendency to recur. It is characterised by inflammation and degeneration of cartilage and can result in deformities such as floppy ear and saddle nose. Loss of cartilage in the respiratory tract can lead to respiratory obstruction. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Dutton's relapsing fever | African tick-borne relapsing fever caused by Borrelia duttonii and spread by the soft tick, Ornithodoros moubata. Synonym: Dutton's relapsing fever. (05 Mar 2000) |