Definition of Recurrent

1. Adjective. Recurring again and again. "Perennial efforts to stipulate the requirements"

Exact synonyms: Perennial, Repeated
Similar to: Continual
Derivative terms: Recur, Recurrence

Definition of Recurrent

1. a. Returning from time to time; recurring; as, recurrent pains.

Definition of Recurrent

1. Adjective. Recurring time after time. ¹

2. Adjective. (mathematics stochastic processes of a state) non-transient. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Recurrent

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Recurrent

1. Returning after intermissions. Origin: L. Recurrens = returning This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recurrent

recuperative
recuperatory
recur
recure
recured
recureless
recures
recuring
recurred
recurrence
recurrence rate
recurrence relation
recurrence risk
recurrences
recurrency
recurrent (current term)
recurrent albuminuria
recurrent aphthous stomatitis
recurrent aphthous ulcers
recurrent appendicitis
recurrent artery
recurrent artery of Heubner
recurrent caries
recurrent central retinitis
recurrent corneal erosion
recurrent encephalopathy
recurrent event
recurrent fever
recurrent herpetic stomatitis

Literary usage of Recurrent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"On the recurrent Images following Visual Impressions." By SHELFORD BIDWELL, MA, LL.B., FRS Received March 27. 1894. The earliest recorded observation which ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1911)
"Suture of recurrent Laryngeal Nerve.—HORSLEY (Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc., January 15, 1910) reports an apparently unique case of successful suture of the ..."

3. American Journal of Roentgenology by American Radium Society (1919)
"The pessimism of the surgeon is in a large measure justified, because statistics in the past have shown that deep-seated recurrent carcinoma cases have ..."

4. A Text-book of medicine for students and practitioners by Adolf von Strümpell, Frederick Cheever Shattuck (1886)
"Paralyses in the Distribution of the Inferior Laryngeal or recurrent Nerve. —The recurrent nerve supplies with sensory fibers the mucous membrane of the ..."

5. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"Behind the internal condyle an offset is given off which anastomoses with the inferior profunda and posterior ulnar recurrent arteries and supplies the ..."

6. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The recurrent Nerve (n. recurrent; inferior or recurrent laryngeal nerve) arises, ... As the recurrent nerve hooks around the subclavian artery or aorta, ..."

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