Recurrent

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  recurrent
       adj : recurring again and again; "perennial efforts to stipulate
             the requirements" [syn: {perennial}, {repeated}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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