ingravescence Med.
(ɪngrəˈvɛsəns)
[f. next: see -ence.]
The quality or condition of being ingravescent; increase of gravity or severity.
| 1822–34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 689 This desire returned with every returning ingravescence of the fever. 1876 J. S. Bristowe Th. & Pract. Med. (1878) 132 This development of contagium goes on during the whole period of ingravescence. |