English Dictionary

worsener

名詞

特に 医学

One who or that which worsens (things), makes things worse. / (especially in medicine) One who or that which worsens (internally), becomes worse, deteriorates in condition.

日本語の意味

事態をさらに悪化させるもの、悪化させる働きを持つ存在。 / （医療の文脈において）病状が内部的に悪化する要因、またはその影響によって状態が悪化するもの。

The new policy acted as a worsener, escalating tensions rather than resolving them.

その新しい方針は事態を悪化させる要因として働き、解決するどころか緊張を高めた。

意味（1）

One who or that which worsens (things), makes things worse.

Make-believe worseners of human nature and human life, Wertherian, Byronic or à la Musset have given way to the trio of the blackening pen, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant, and later on their heels comes a wit as brilliant and versatile as Voltaire's, but without Voltaire's hopefulness and faith in humanity — Anatole France. Balzac's work has immensely enriched the intellectual capital of the world, has it made the multitude, the rascal many, happier or better?

意味（2）

(especially in medicine) One who or that which worsens (internally), becomes worse, deteriorates in condition.

[There] is no suggestion that they were treated differently, for example, from the “worseners” or those who remained the same in the same groups. In reviewing the characteristics of improvers as compared with worseners, a multivariate analysis (to be reported on at a later date) shows no cluster of predictive variables among the almost 100 characteristics recorded. Our data then do not permit prediction of self-care change. It was noted clinically that “improvers” required less nursing care …

worseners （ plural ）