1.
[syn: perennial, recurrent, repeated]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Recurrent \Re*cur"rent\ (-rent), a. [L. recurrens, -entis, p.
pr. of recurrere: cf.F. r['e]current. See Recur.]
1. Returning from time to time; recurring; as, recurrent
pains.
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2. (Anat.) Running back toward its origin; as, a recurrent
nerve or artery.
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Recurrent 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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
recurrent
adj 1: recurring again and again; "perennial efforts to
stipulate the requirements" [syn: perennial,
recurrent, repeated]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
112 Moby Thesaurus words for "recurrent":
alternate, articulated, automatic, beaten, beating, catenated,
ceaseless, circling, common, concatenated, connected, constant,
continual, continued, continuing, continuous, cyclic, cyclical,
direct, endless, epochal, even, ever-recurring, every other,
everyday, featureless, frequent, frequentative, gapless, habitual,
hackneyed, haunting, immediate, incessant, indelible, interminable,
intermittent, isochronal, isochronous, iterative, joined,
jointless, linked, many, many times, measured, metronomic,
monotonous, nagging, never-ending, nonstop, not rare, obsessive,
of common occurrence, oft-repeated, oftentime, ordinary,
oscillatory, perennial, periodic, periodical, persistent,
prevalent, pulsing, reappearing, reciprocal, recurring, regular,
repeated, repetitious, repetitive, returning, revenant, rhythmic,
rotary, round-the-clock, routine, running, seamless, seasonal,
serial, serried, smooth, stable, steady, stereotyped, straight,
thematic, thick-coming, trite, twenty-four-hour, ubiquitous,
unbroken, unceasing, undifferentiated, undulant, undulatory,
unending, unforgettable, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent,
unintermitting, uninterrupted, unrelieved, unremitting, unstopped,
usual, wavelike, well-trodden, well-worn, wheeling