ingravescent

English

Etymology

From Latin ingravēscent.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛsənt

Adjective

ingravescent (not comparable)

  1. (medicine, obsolete) Increasing in severity.
    ingravescent apoplexy
    • 1890, Transactions of the American Neurological Association, page 76:
      Cerebral hemorrhage, ingravescent in character, was diagnosticated and preparations were at once made for ligaturing the right common carotid.

Latin

Verb

ingravēscent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of ingravēscō
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