ingravescent

English

Etymology

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