EXACERBATION

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The act rendering more violent or bitter; the state of being exacerbated or intensified in violence or malignity; as, exacerbation of passion.

2.
n.

A periodical increase of violence in a disease, as in remittent or continious fever; an increased energy of diseased and painful action.