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prerelapse

prerelapse adjective: before a relapse.

Adjective

prerelapse (not comparable)

  1. Before a relapse.
    • The time to development of any initial relapse (local or distant) was defined from end of initial prerelapse treatment to first recurrence.2015 August 9, Christopher L. Tinkle et al., “Intraoperative Radiotherapy in the Management of Locally Recurrent Extremity Soft Tissue Sarcoma”, in Sarcoma, volume 2015, →DOI

Origin of prerelapse

From pre- + relapse.

Questions about prerelapse

What does prerelapse mean?
Prerelapse means before a relapse.
What part of speech is prerelapse?
Prerelapse is an adjective.

Words near prerelapse in the dictionary

  1. preregulation
  2. prerehabilitation
  3. prerehearsal
  4. prerehearsals
  5. prerejection
  6. prerelapse
  7. prerelationship
  8. prerelax
  9. prerelaxed
  10. prerelaxes
  11. prerelaxing

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