recurrent : Idioms & Phrases


recurrent event

  • noun an event that recurs at intervals
    periodic event.
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Recurrent fever

  • noun marked by recurring high fever and transmitted by the bite of infected lice or ticks; characterized by episodes of high fever and chills and headache and muscle pain and nausea that recur every week or ten days for several months
    relapsing fever.
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  • . (Med.) See Relapsing fever, under Relapsing.
Webster 1913

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.
Webster 1913

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 1913