Recurrent vs Recrudescent - What's the difference?
recurrent | recrudescent |
Recurring time after time.
(mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) non-transient.
Running back toward its origin.
breaking out again or reemerging after temporary abatement or suppression
:This seems to be a recrudescent strain of the plague rather than a new disease altogether.
(archaic) growing raw, sore, or painful again
Recrudescent is a hypernym of recurrent.
As adjectives the difference between recurrent and recrudescent
is that recurrent is recurring time after time while recrudescent is breaking out again or reemerging after temporary abatement or suppression.recurrent
English
Adjective
(wikipedia recurrent) (-)- The patient complained of recurrent chest pain.
- a recurrent nerve or artery