recedent,a.Med.|rɪˈsiːdənt| [f. as prec. + -ent: cf.precedent.] = retrocedent. 1822Good Study Med. II. 505 Retrograde; recedent; misplaced gout.1830Fraser's Mag. II. 381 Persons subject to gout..particularly in that form of the disease which the learned call recedent.