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  • Relapsing after a BMT is a very ominous sign and because Shannon's form of AML is considered chemo-resistant, the doctors told her quite bluntly that there was no established medical protocol for the situation she is now in and that there was not much they could do for her.

    Cynthia Boaz: Shannon's Story: Health Care and Our Need for Cultural Healing (originally posted in August 2009) 2009

  • Relapsing, she just sat and stared at her sister, open-mouthed, incredulous.

    Sister Ann 2004

  • Relapsing fever or borreliosis is a febrile illness caused by spirochaetes and transmitted to humans by lice or ticks.

    Chapter 12 1993

  • Relapsing vesicular eruption due to Herpes simplex virus affecting the mucus membranes and skin.

    Chapter 9 1993

  • Relapsing into an existence half reality, half dreamlike, he was striving to divine the true state of his thoughts when called upon by Sir Thomas Tilden.

    Lady Rosamond's Secret A Romance of Fredericton Rebecca Agatha Armour

  • Relapsing into French, Monsieur asked me if I would have any hesitation in dropping bombs on Germans?

    The Enormous Room 1928

  • Relapsing at once into his ordinary manner, he produced a scrap of paper and tendered it shyly.

    Shining Ferry Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • _ [Relapsing into his daring mood] _ But I say my name's Baker; and I'm not to be treated as a child or made a slave of by any man.

    Misalliance George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • Relapsing into stupor, his pipe fell from his mouth, and the fire was set.

    Margaret 1851

  • Relapsing into grim and savage silence, I glared gloomily at a sharp jagged stone which lay at my feet, and at length, taking it in my hand, walked mechanically into a stagnant pool, where a group of willow sprigs were growing on a few old stumps barely emerging from the water.

    Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 458 Volume 18, New Series, October 9, 1852 Various 1841

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