Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of sprouting or budding again: used in pathology to indicate the return of a morbid growth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of budding again; the state of having budded again.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A second or subsequent
budding .
Etymologies
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re- + pullulation
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Examples
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Radical resection or cauterization of the base is unwise because of the probable impairment of the voice, or cicatricial stenosis, without in anyway insuring against repullulation.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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Bronchoscopic Clinic, that repeated superficial removals with blunt non-cutting forceps (see Chapter I) will so modify the soil as to make it unfavorable for repullulation.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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