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adj. Occurring or appearing again or repeatedly.

adj. Anatomy Turning in a reverse direction. Used of blood vessels and nerves.

adj. Recurring time after time.

adj. non-transient.

adj. Running back toward its origin.

adj. Returning from time to time; recurring.

adj. Running back toward its origin.

Recurring; returning from time to time; reappearing; repeated: as, recurrent pains of a disease.

In crystallography, noting a crystal which exhibits an oscillatory combination of two sets of planes. See oscillatory.

In anatomy, turned back in its course, and running in a direction the opposite of its former one: specifically noting the inferior laryngeal branch of the pneumogastric. See the following phrases.

In entomology, turning back toward the base: as, a recurrent process.

A branch which is more or less turned toward the base of the wing, in a direction contrary to the nervure from which it arises. Many of these recurrent nervures are distinguished.

A vein of the wing which, after running toward the apex, is bent or curved back toward the base, as in many Coleoptera.

The anterior, a larger branch, arising just behind the perforation of the Interosseous membrane, and anastomosing with the lower articular popliteal arteries.

The posterior, arising a little lower than the anterior (though they often have a common origin), and communicating with the inferior profunda, the anastomotic, and posterior interosseous recurrent.

n. Any recurrent nerve or artery.

In paleontology, reappearing without essential change in organic composition: used of faunas which reappear after their first disappearance from a given geological section, or of a species which thus returns after departure. The conception of recurrent faunas implies the fact of migration and temporary absence from a given geographical province with subsequent return thereto.

n. A recurrent verse.

adj. recurring again and again

"With nose serrulated by continuous spasms, hair bristling in recurrent waves, tongue whipping out like a red snake and whipping back again, ears flattened down, eyes gleaming hatred, lips wrinkled back, and fangs exposed and dripping, he could compel a pause on the part of almost any assailant."

continual   

recurrent arteries of the deep palmar arch    recurrent nervure    recurrent ulnar arteries    recurrent tibial arteries    recurrent nerve of the inferior maxillary    recurrent fever    recurrent fibroid tumor    posterior interosseous recurrent artery    recurrent pulse    recurrent mania   

recurrence    quasirecurrent   

recurring    discontinuous    returning    reappearing    frequent    cyclic    haunting    rolling    atavistic    repetitory   

concurrent    current    intercurrent   

metastatic    periodic    cutaneous    chronic    low-grade    ovarian    laryngeal    cerebral    rheumatic    frequent