RELAPSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does relapse mean? 

• RELAPSE (noun)
  The noun RELAPSE has 1 sense:

1. a failure to maintain a higher state

  Familiarity information: RELAPSE used as a noun is very rare.

• RELAPSE (verb)
  The verb RELAPSE has 2 senses:

1. deteriorate in health

2. go back to bad behavior

  Familiarity information: RELAPSE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELAPSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A failure to maintain a higher state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

backsliding; lapse; lapsing; relapse; relapsing; reversion; reverting

Hypernyms ("relapse" is a kind of...):

failure (an act that fails)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "relapse"):

recidivism (habitual relapse into crime)

Derivation:

relapse (go back to bad behavior)

relapse (deteriorate in health)

• RELAPSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they relapse    ... he / she / it relapses   
Past simple: relapsed   
Past participle: relapsed   
-ing form: relapsing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deteriorate in health

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

get worse; relapse

Context example:

he relapsed

Hypernyms (to "relapse" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

relapse (a failure to maintain a higher state)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Go back to bad behavior

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

fall back; lapse; recidivate; regress; relapse; retrogress

Context example:

Those who recidivate are often minor criminals

Hypernyms (to "relapse" is one way to...):

regress; retrovert; return; revert; turn back (go back to a previous state)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

relapse; relapsing (a failure to maintain a higher state)

 Context examples 

Biochemical relapse may occur in patients who do not have symptoms.

(Biochemical relapse, NCI Dictionary)

CSCs, self-replicating cells able to differentiate into heterogeneous cancer cells, appear to be responsible for both tumor relapse and metastasis.

(Cancer Stemness Kinase Inhibitor BBI503, NCI Thesaurus)

A chemotherapy regimen consisting of dexamethasone, high-dose cytarabine (Ara-C) and cisplatin, used to treat relapsed and refractory non-Hodgkin's and Hodgkin's lymphoma.

(DHAP Regimen, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called biochemical relapse and PSA failure.

(Biochemical recurrence, NCI Dictionary)

Aberrant expression of the gene may be involved in leukemia relapse.

(ABTB2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Three years after HDIT/HCT treatment, nearly 80% of trial participants had survived without an increase in disability, relapse of MS symptoms, or new brain lesions.

(Immune System Reset May Halt Multiple Sclerosis Progression, NIH)

A genomic analysis has linked certain DNA mutations to a high risk of relapse in estrogen receptor positive breast cancer, while other mutations were associated with better outcomes.

(Study finds new clues in understanding relapse in breast cancer, Agência Brasil)

Genetic variation may be associated with both the occurrence and relapse of acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

(EBF1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare, chronic and relapsing autoimmune disorder of unknown etiology, characterized by the presence of immune thrombocytopenia and autoimmune hemolytic anemia.

(Evans Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

By very slow degrees, and with frequent relapses that alarmed and grieved my friend, I recovered.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)