quiescent
- adjective
- /kwɪˈɛsənt/
- Specialized
:
inactivo
- The doctor noted that the patient's infection was quiescent, showing no signs of active symptoms.
- quiescent state
Examples
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HBeAg to anti-HBe seroconversion is typically associated with a "flare" of liver disease, which usually becomes quiescent.
Academic text (1994) -
"Then an unknown aspect of host development triggers the pathogen to activate from its quiescent state and destroy grape berries."
Academic text (2006) -
The genes in one region are activated while gene expression in the corresponding region on the opposite side of his brain remains quiescent.
Blog text (21) -
They remain quiescent and they're there to respond to different kinds of injury.
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Latent tuberculosis occurs after an immune response has been generated to control the pathogen and force it into a quiescent state.
Academic text (2000) -
In some patients, it has been possible to withdraw steroids altogether when the disease is quiescent, leaving the patient controlled on a small dose of cyclosporin alone.
Academic text (1991) -
Syphilis was new, after all, and nobody knew at first that the disease passed through primary, secondary, and tertiary stages, each with distinct symptoms and with quiescent periods in between (Allen, 2000).
Academic text (2014) -
It was as if scar tissue had formed over a wound that had never healed properly, a wound that lay quiescent, almost forgotten unless she picked at it, and then throbbed and surged back to life as it did now because she had let herself think of him, of that last day with him.
Fiction book (2002) -
Rabies was quiescent after this resurgence in 2004/2005 until fall 2008, when the disease was confirmed in several gray foxes and striped skunks (4).
Academic text (2012) -
During the exam, the quiescent condition of the disease allowed the patient to avoid further treatment.
Synonyms
3
2.7
Not active now but likely to start again later
Antonyms
How Active
Surface Forms
Morphology
quiescent = quiesc + ent
The medical sense uses the same Latinate formation and the components are not transparently meaningful to an average learner.
Etymology
Quiescent comes from the Latin root quies meaning 'rest' and is the same root as quiet, so think of a disease or growth as 'sleeping'. In medicine, a 'quiescent' condition is 'not active' and causes no symptoms.