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Webster 1913 Edition
Recurrent
1.
Returning from time to time; recurring;
as,
. recurrent
pains2.
(Anat.)
Running back toward its origin;
as, a
. recurrent
nerve or arteryRecurrent fever
. (Med.)
See
– Relapsing fever
, under Relapsing
. Recurrent pulse
(Physiol.)
, the pulse beat which appears (when the radial artery is compressed at the wrist) on the distal side of the point of pressure through the arteries of the palm of the hand.
– Recurrent sensibility
(Physiol.)
, the sensibility manifested by the anterior, or motor, roots of the spinal cord (their stimulation causing pain) owing to the presence of sensory fibers from the corresponding sensory or posterior roots.
Webster 1828 Edition
Recurrent
RECUR'RENT
,Adj.
1.
Returning from time to time; as recurrent pains of a disease.2.
In crystallography, a recurrent crystal is one whose faces, being counted in annular ranges from one extremity to the other, furnish two different numbers which succeed each other times, as 4, 8, 4, 8, 4.3.
In anatomy, the recurrent nerve is a branch of the par vagum, given off in the upper part of the thorax, which is reflected and runs up along the trachea to the larynx.Definition 2024
recurrent
recurrent
See also: récurrent
English
Adjective
recurrent (not comparable)
- Recurring time after time.
- The patient complained of recurrent chest pain.
- (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) non-transient.
- Running back toward its origin.
- a recurrent nerve or artery
Synonyms
- (math): persistent
Related terms
- quasirecurrent
- recurrence
Translations
recurring time after time
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math: non-transient
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running back toward its origin
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