Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having passed the culmination or crisis; gradually declining: said of a disease which is progressing to recovery, or of the vital processes in old age.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Gradually decreasing; past the acme, or crisis, as a distemper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective medicine, archaic Gradually decreasing; past the
acme , orcrisis , as adistemper .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek. See para- and acme.
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