recurrentadj.n.¹

Brit.

/rᵻˈkʌrənt/,

/rᵻˈkʌrn̩t/, U.S.

/rəˈkərənt/,

/riˈkərənt/

Forms: 1500s– recurrent, 1600s recurrant.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin recurrent-, recurrēns.

Etymology: < classical Latin recurrent-, recurrēns present participle of recurrere recur v. Compare Middle French, French récurrent (1555 in anatomical use; 1713 in mathematical use), Spanish recurrente (c1500), Italian ricorrente (a1622). Compare earlier recurring adj.In recurrent sensibility at sense A. 1b after French sensibilité récurrente (F. Magendie 1847, in Comptes rendus hebd. de l'Acad. des Sci. 24 1131). With sense A. 2a and A. 2b compare slightly earlier recurrence n. In sense A. 2c after French récurrent (1801 in Haüy). In sense A. 3b after post-classical Latin recurrentes versus ( Sidonius Epistles 9. 14 (5th cent.)).

A. adj.

a. Anatomy and Biology. Of a nerve, blood vessel, or other anatomical structure, or the course of such a structure: that reverses direction; that turns back upon itself; spec. (esp. in recurrent nerve, recurrent laryngeal nerve) designating a branch of the vagus nerve that curves under a large artery (the right subclavian artery in the case of the right nerve, the aortic arch in the case of the left) before ascending to innervate the larynx.Frequently postpositive in early use.

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the world > plants > part of plant > growth, movement, or curvature of parts > [adjective] > in a particular direction

recurrent1578

acroscopic1868

basipetal1869

basifugal1875

basiscopic1882

the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > [adjective] > others

recurrent1578

subserous1827

unipolar1862

the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > types of nerves > [adjective]

motive?a1425

recurrent1578

motory1683

refluent1741

abducent1752

motorial1768

internuncial1821

motor1823

centrifugal1828

unfilamentous1828

masticatory1834

aesthesodic1859

incito-motor1865

vaso-motor1865

kinesodic1874

centripetal1877

vaso-motorial1877

incito-motory1884

augmentor1885

pilomotor1891

postfixed1892

postganglionic1892

precellular1892

prefixed1892

preganglionic1892

plurisegmental1898

nocifensor1936

the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > specific nerves > [noun] > pairs of cranial nerves > specific cranial nerves

optic sinew?c1425

recurrent nerve1578

optic1615

optic nerve1615

recurrent1615

par vagum1666

fourth nerve1681

accessory nerve1682

chorda tympani1807

abducens1809

hypoglossus1811

pneumogastric1826

pneumogastric nerve1827

hypoglossal nerve1828

facial1834

fifth nerve1836–9

vagus1840

vagal nerve1854

vagus nerve1856

Jacobson's nerve1860

oculomotor1868

trigeminus1875

hypoglossal1876

oculimotor1890

pathetic1890

sixth1899

trigeminal1899

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 11^v As though betwene the Incissorie, and Dogge teeth, were some interceptiue Seame recurrent.

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man viii. f. 105 ^v And this is the true & brief description of the right recurrent, or reuersiue Nerue.

1597 P. Lowe Whole Course Chirurg. v. xii. sig. N4 Those that are great, and neare the tracharter, are difficill in opening, by reason of the nerues recurrent which being cut, the sick waxeth dum.

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Recorrenti vene, the veines called the recurrant veines.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 68 That pleasant Experiment by tying the recurrent Nerves in a living Dogg.

1724 W. Stukeley Of Spleen 21 The first or par vagum is distributed to all the parts within the thorax, the lungs and heart, and by what they call the recurrent branch, to the wind-pipe and gullet.

1731 T. Lobb Treat. Smallpox i. 12 Abatement of these Swellings is not the Effect of any Return of the Humour inwards into the Blood again by any recurrent Vessels.

1775 J. Jenkinson Linnæus' Generic & Specific Descr. Brit. Plants Gloss. Recurrent, running backwards.

1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 190 The corolla, whose tube has five nerves..dividing at top into recurrent branches.

1877 Gray's Anat. (ed. 8) 704 The tubes taking the course above described form a kind of loop, and are known as the looped or recurrent tubes of Henle.

1916 Amer. Jrnl. Anat. 19 451 Its most significant feature is the description of recurrent bronchi..growing from the air-sacs into the lungs and anastomosing with the parabronchi.

1947 A. D. Imms Outl. Entomol. (ed. 3) ii. 29 This ganglion is joined by bilateral connectives..to the tritocerebrum and gives off a recurrent nerve.

1954 Times 3 July 11/9 Both her recurrent laryngeal nerves were damaged.

1993 Plastic & Reconstructive Surg. 92 1137 This plexus is also fed by communicating branches from the radial recurrent artery.

b. Physiology. Of or relating to sensation (esp. of pain) associated with the ventral (chiefly motor) root of a spinal nerve, originally attributed to recurrent fibres from the dorsal root; esp. in recurrent sensibility. Now historical.

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1847 Lancet 13 July 132/1 M. Magendie communicated a note on Recurrent Sensibility.

1873 A. Flint Nerv. Syst. ii. 82 The sensibility of the anterior root is recurrent, being derived from the posterior root through the periphery.

1946 Jrnl. Hist. Med. 1 182 His [sc. Magendie's] experiment on recurrent sensibility gave rise to another contest with Longet.

1983 Science 25 Nov. 934 There are many sensory fibers in ventral roots... This..provides an explanation for the clinical phenomenon of recurrent sensibility.

1997 Progress in Neurobiol. 51 92/2 The pain reaction reflecting recurrent sensibility was relieved by section of the corresponding dorsal root.

a. Occurring again, esp. regularly.

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1629 L. Andrewes XCVI. Serm. v. 223 It is a yearely recurrent fast.

1662 P. Gunning Paschal or Lent-Fast (Appendix) x. 539 Speaking of the yearly recurrent fast of Lent.

1701 tr. N. Andry Acct. Breeding Worms in Human Bodies v. 120 In some their Eyes are of the colour of Blood, a Pulse unequal and recurrent.

1776 A. Wilson Med. Res. Hysterics x. 99 The persons most susceptible of the attacks of this disease, are generally such as have the apperance of the greatest health..in such constitutions, it frequently becomes recurrent and habitual.

1850 J. S. Blackie tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas I. 47 From time to time In children's children recurrent appears The ancestral crime.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xxvi. 368 The bands must be due to some regularly recurrent cause.

1920 Act 10 & 11 George V c. 67 §21 (1) To impose any tax, whether recurrent or non-recurrent, of the nature of a general tax upon capital.

2007 Times (Nexis) 15 Nov. 38 The three-day strike by freight train drivers..is part of their recurrent demand for exceptional pay rises.

b. Medicine. Of a disease, symptom, or condition: occurring again, esp. repeatedly or periodically; reappearing after remission or apparent cure.

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the world > time > frequency > [adjective] > repeated or recurring

recurring1511

repeated1577

reiterated1592

round1620

recurrent1666

tautological1677

recurrable1846

1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus xiv. 72 Short intermittent, or swift recurrent pains do precipitate patients into Consumptions.

1724 J. Maubray Female Physician xxviii. 111 If the number of recurrent paroxysms be summed up, they will exactly amount to the aforesaid 336 Hours.

1768 G. Fordyce Elements Pract. Physic: Pt. II (ed. 2) 5 Recurrent Fevers, consisting of more than one period, no single one lasting more than twenty-four hours.

1852 J. Paget Lect. Surg. Pathol. ii. 155 I have proposed the name of Recurrent Fibroid tumour.

1893 A. S. Eccles Sciatica 82 Six patients have suffered from recurrent sciatica after periods varying from six months to four years.

1967 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 114 563/1 The clinical course of three patients with recurrent primary brain tumors has not been altered by intra-arterial chemotherapy.

1991 Atlantic Aug. 85/2 Barney began to suffer from anxiety, insomnia, nightmares, and a recurrent ulcer.

2002 Daily Tel. 3 May 24/8 Recurrent nasal polyps are common in people with other respiratory conditions, such as asthma, hay fever and chronic sinusitis.

c. Crystallography. Designating multiple twinning (twinning n.² 2a); exhibiting such twinning.

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the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > crystal (general) > crystal types > [adjective] > composite crystals > twin > types of

polysynthetic1805

recurrent1813

1813 F. Accum Elements Crystallogr. iv. i. 280 Recurrent, when, on taking the faces of the crystal by annular rows, from one extremity to the other, we have two numbers, which succeed several times, as, four, eight, four, eight, four. Ex. Recurrent oxid of tin.

1976 Faraday Discuss. (Royal Soc. Chem.) 61 119 In the mineral zussmanite..a kind of recurrent twinning leads to the establishment of localized bands of a new phase.

2002 Jrnl. Solid State Chem. 165 214/1 A recurrent twinning characterized by a three fold axis from one block to the subsequent one occurs in the crystals studied.

†3.

a. That returns quickly. Also: having recourse to. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

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1656 T. Blount Glossographia Recurrent, returning hastily, running again or back quickly, having recourse to.

b. Of a verse: that reads the same both forwards and backwards, palindromic. Cf. sense B. 1. Obsolete. rare.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [adjective] > relating to or consisting of lines > palindromic

Sotadical1610

retrograde1653

recurrent1706

reciprocal1728

Sotadean1774

Sotadic?a1814

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Recurrents, or Recurrent Verses, such Verses as are read the same backward and forward.

1799 E. Du Bois Wreath 45 The recurrent verse breaks a sentence in a similar manner, in that exquisite Elegy, the Pharmaceutria of Theocritus.

1821 New Monthly Mag. 2 170 The Palindromes, or Canorine, or recurrent verses, as they were called.

c. That returns repeatedly to a subject. Obsolete. rare.

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1895 A. Symons London Nights 63 And with the dawn that vision came again To an unrested and recurrent brain.

B. n.¹

†1. A verse which reads the same forwards and backwards. Cf. sense A. 3b. Obsolete. rare.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > line > other types of line

underverse1579

recurrent1605

serpentine verse1605

acatalectic1611

rumbler1670

Pindaric1697

quadruped1800

octonarius1819

asynartete1830

pada1855

chronostichon1859

jingle-jangle1864

sevener1920

1605 W. Camden Remaines ii. 26 Beside these [metres], our Poets hath their knacks as young Schollers call them, as Ecchos.., Serpentine verses, Recurrents, Numeralls, &c.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia (at cited word) A kind of verses called Recurrents.

1751 R. O. Cambridge Scribleriad ii. 16 (note) Reciprocal verses, (also called Retrograde and Recurrents) give the same words whether read backwards or forwards.

2. Anatomy. A recurrent nerve or blood vessel; spec. a recurrent laryngeal nerve (see sense A. 1a).

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the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > [noun] > others

life vein?1515

recurrent1615

subclavian1615

pyloric1714

pudendal1752

prester1753

shunt1923

the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > types of nerves > [noun]

sensitive?a1425

motivec1475

life stringc1522

recurrent1615

life corda1631

abducent1681

cord1774

chord1783

motor1824

afferent1828

excitor1836

nerve trunk1850

mixed nerve1861

inhibitory nerve1870

nervelet1875

vaso-motor1887

pilomotor1892

lemniscus1913

the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > specific nerves > [noun] > pairs of cranial nerves > specific cranial nerves

optic sinew?c1425

recurrent nerve1578

optic1615

optic nerve1615

recurrent1615

par vagum1666

fourth nerve1681

accessory nerve1682

chorda tympani1807

abducens1809

hypoglossus1811

pneumogastric1826

pneumogastric nerve1827

hypoglossal nerve1828

facial1834

fifth nerve1836–9

vagus1840

vagal nerve1854

vagus nerve1856

Jacobson's nerve1860

oculomotor1868

trigeminus1875

hypoglossal1876

oculimotor1890

pathetic1890

sixth1899

trigeminal1899

1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. iv. ii. f. 19/2 The muscles, which are serviceable to the speach, or voyce, as are the recurrentes, or retrogradinge muscles.]

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 365 When it commeth to the Axillary artery..it transmitteth..three braunches from the inner side..which being reflected toward the head and vnited do make the right Recurrent.

1724 W. Stukeley Of Spleen 101 All the pairs of nerves..were large and very discernible, particularly the recurrent upon the body of the medulla spinalis.

1741 A. Monro Anat. Nerves 53 in Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) The Muscles of the Larynx being in a good measure supplied with Nerves from the Recurrents.

1808 J. Barclay Muscular Motions 254 The course of the nervous branches that are called recurrents.

1858 T. W. Nunn Observ. & Notes Arteries of Limbs 15 Plexus formed about the elbow by branches of the superior and inferior profunda, anastomotic, and recurrents of the radial, ulnar, and interosseous.

1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. iv. 554 Pressure on the right recurrent, which may be produced by innominate or subclavian aneurysm, will have a corresponding effect on the right vocal cord.

1913 Lancet 31 May 1528/2 Right recurrent paralysis and dysphagia were almost always due to malignant disease of the œsophagus.

2002 Diabetes & Metabolism 28 413 In the case described,..unilateral temporary vocal cord palsy caused by right inferior laryngeal nerve (recurrent) paralysis associated with type 1 diabetes mellitus is presented.

Compounds

recurrent fever n. Medicine fever that recurs at intervals; an instance of this; spec. = relapsing fever n. at relapsing adj. Compounds.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > other fevers

fever hectica1398

emitrichie1398

hectic1398

etisie1527

emphysode fever1547

frenzy-fever1613

purple fever1623

prunella1656

marcid fever1666

remittent1693

feveret1712

rheumatic fever1726

milk fever1739

stationary fever1742

febricula1746

milky fever1747

camp-disease1753

camp-fever1753

sun fever1765

recurrent fever1768

rose fever1782

tooth-fever1788

sensitive fever1794

forest-fever1799

white leg1801

hill-fever1804

Walcheren fever1810

Mediterranean fever1816

malignant1825

relapsing fever1828

rose cold1831

date fever1836

rose catarrh1845

Walcheren ague1847

mountain fever1849

mill fever1850

Malta fever1863

bilge-fever1867

Oroya fever1873

hyperpyrexia1875

famine-fever1876

East Coast fever1881

spirillum fevera1883

kala azar1883

black water1884

febricule1887

urine fever1888

undulant fever1896

rabbit fever1898

rat bite fever1910

Rhodesian sleeping sickness1911

sandfly fever1911

tularaemia1921

sodoku1926

brucellosis1930

Rift Valley fever1931

Zika1952

Lassa fever1970

Marburg1983

1768 G. Fordyce Elements Pract. Physic: Pt. II 3 Recurrent fevers, consisting of more than one Period, no single one lasting more than 24 hours, or till the Evening following.

1860 Lancet 7 Jan. 1/2 The resemblance of this appalling disease in some of its features to an occasional epidemic of our time—the relapsing or recurrent fever..is striking.

1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) x. 249 Conveyance from one patient to another by biting insects has been proved to occur in the case of Sp. duttoni, the parasite of African recurrent (‘tick’) fever.

2002 Bristol Evening Post (Nexis) 9 Mar. 13 In 19th century India malaria killed a million babies under the age of one and another million under the age of 10, disabling another two million with recurrent fevers.

recurrent nova n. Astronomy a nova that undergoes recurrent outbursts (outburst n. 1c).

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1933 Observatory 65 334 It is probably only a matter of time before other ex-novæ will be found to brighten again, and the existence of a class of recurrent novæ must be recognised.

1956 Vistas in Astron. 2 1140 III.B₁. Recurrent Novae—Characterized by repeated outbursts in which they behave very like ordinary novae, although with some peculiarities, and by typical symbiotic spectrum when at minimum light.

2006 Scotsman (Nexis) 8 Apr. 32 RS Oph, known as a recurrent nova, has reached its current level of brightness only five times in the past 108 years.

recurrent polyserositis n. Medicine = familial Mediterranean fever n. at Mediterranean fever n. 2.

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1958 M. Rachmilewitz et al. in Israel Med. Jrnl. 17 150 (title) Tuberculin sensitivity in recurrent polyserositis (periodic disease).

1970 Israel Jrnl. Med. Sci. 6 9/1 The name recurrent polyserositis..describes the underlying pathological lesion, a recurrent inflammation of various serous membranes.

2006 Lancet 25 Mar. 1016/1 The disorder might also be referred to as recurrent polyserositis, recurrent hereditary polyserositis, periodic disease, and periodic peritonitis.

recurrent relation n. a relation in which the result of an operation is applied as a new input; (Mathematics) = recurrence relation n. at recurrence n. Compounds 2.

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the world > relative properties > number > algebra > [noun] > expression > with reference to preceding members of series

recurrence formula1893

recurrent relation1897

recurrence relation1912

1897 Philos. Trans. 1896 (Royal Soc.) A. 187 522 These recurrent relations between the functions for different values of n hold for general complex values of m and n.

1931 E. W. Hobson Theory Spherical & Ellipsoidal Harmonics ii. 67 Recurrent relations..between the functions Q_n(μ) for different values of n.

1990 G. Z. Sun et al. in Internat. Joint Conf. Neural Networks I. 579 The final correction is made at the end of input patterns. These recurrent relations can be derived in terms of chain rule of the derivative of the error function.

2002 Jrnl. Appl. Probability 39 408 (heading) Number of customers served: recurrent relation.

recurrent series n. Mathematics = recurring series n. at recurring adj. Compounds.

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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > numerical arrangement > [noun] > set > sequence > series > recurring

recurring series1738

recurrent series1763

1763 W. Emerson Method of Increments 144 To find the sum of 50 terms of the recurrent series..1 + 3x + 8x² + 21x³, &c.

1879 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 2 250 If, instead of multiplying numerator and denominator by 1 + a¹⁰, we multiply by the infinite series 1 + a¹⁰ + a²⁰ +.., the denominator becomes representative and the invariantive part of the numerator becomes the recurrent series given in the table.

1967 Econometrica 35 264 The power series G(z)..is a recurrent series which is absolutely convergent in the disk |z| < |r₁⁻¹|.

1992 Amer. Math. Monthly 99 541 Most of his books and articles concentrate on number theory, recurrent series, and recreational mathematics.

Derivatives

reˈcurrently adv. repeatedly.

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the world > time > frequency > [adverb] > repeatedly

day and nightOE

morning, noon, and nightc1325

new and newa1425

time after time?a1425

over and overa1470

toties quoties1525

again and again1533

reiteratively1619

over and over again1637

repeatedlya1647

times without number1658

to and again1659

—— in, —— out1815

time and time again1821

day in (and) day out1824

recurringly1828

repetitiously1828

recurrently1841

repetitively1872

ever and again1880

recursively1901

twenty-four hours a day1914

serially1978

1841 C. Lane in tr. Z. C. Gatti de Gamond Phalanstery Introd. p. iii This Uniter, Unity, Unit, or One, is the premonitor whence exists the premonition 'Unity', which so recurrently becomes conscious in man.

1877 ‘H. A. Page’ T. De Quincey: Life & Writings II. xix. 183 This tendency to real life..declaring itself recurrently and with great strength.

1903 H. James Ambassadors i. iii. 30 Strether was in fact recurrently shameless in the presence of the tailors, though it was just over the heads of the tailors that his countryman most loftily looked.

2004 M. M. Lewis Scars of Soul i. iii. 53 As a teenager I recurrently handed over test tubes of urine for my father to take back to his job.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	recurrent
释义	recurrentadj.n.¹ Brit. /rᵻˈkʌrənt/, /rᵻˈkʌrn̩t/, U.S. /rəˈkərənt/, /riˈkərənt/ Forms: 1500s– recurrent, 1600s recurrant. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin recurrent-, recurrēns. Etymology: < classical Latin recurrent-, recurrēns present participle of recurrere recur v. Compare Middle French, French récurrent (1555 in anatomical use; 1713 in mathematical use), Spanish recurrente (c1500), Italian ricorrente (a1622). Compare earlier recurring adj.In recurrent sensibility at sense A. 1b after French sensibilité récurrente (F. Magendie 1847, in Comptes rendus hebd. de l'Acad. des Sci. 24 1131). With sense A. 2a and A. 2b compare slightly earlier recurrence n. In sense A. 2c after French récurrent (1801 in Haüy). In sense A. 3b after post-classical Latin recurrentes versus ( Sidonius Epistles 9. 14 (5th cent.)). A. adj. 1. a. Anatomy and Biology. Of a nerve, blood vessel, or other anatomical structure, or the course of such a structure: that reverses direction; that turns back upon itself; spec. (esp. in recurrent nerve, recurrent laryngeal nerve) designating a branch of the vagus nerve that curves under a large artery (the right subclavian artery in the case of the right nerve, the aortic arch in the case of the left) before ascending to innervate the larynx.Frequently postpositive in early use. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > growth, movement, or curvature of parts > [adjective] > in a particular direction recurrent1578 acroscopic1868 basipetal1869 basifugal1875 basiscopic1882 the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > [adjective] > others recurrent1578 subserous1827 unipolar1862 the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > types of nerves > [adjective] motive?a1425 recurrent1578 motory1683 refluent1741 abducent1752 motorial1768 internuncial1821 motor1823 centrifugal1828 unfilamentous1828 masticatory1834 aesthesodic1859 incito-motor1865 vaso-motor1865 kinesodic1874 centripetal1877 vaso-motorial1877 incito-motory1884 augmentor1885 pilomotor1891 postfixed1892 postganglionic1892 precellular1892 prefixed1892 preganglionic1892 plurisegmental1898 nocifensor1936 the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > specific nerves > [noun] > pairs of cranial nerves > specific cranial nerves optic sinew?c1425 recurrent nerve1578 optic1615 optic nerve1615 recurrent1615 par vagum1666 fourth nerve1681 accessory nerve1682 chorda tympani1807 abducens1809 hypoglossus1811 pneumogastric1826 pneumogastric nerve1827 hypoglossal nerve1828 facial1834 fifth nerve1836–9 vagus1840 vagal nerve1854 vagus nerve1856 Jacobson's nerve1860 oculomotor1868 trigeminus1875 hypoglossal1876 oculimotor1890 pathetic1890 sixth1899 trigeminal1899 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 11^v As though betwene the Incissorie, and Dogge teeth, were some interceptiue Seame recurrent. 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man viii. f. 105 ^v And this is the true & brief description of the right recurrent, or reuersiue Nerue. 1597 P. Lowe Whole Course Chirurg. v. xii. sig. N4 Those that are great, and neare the tracharter, are difficill in opening, by reason of the nerues recurrent which being cut, the sick waxeth dum. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Recorrenti vene, the veines called the recurrant veines. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 68 That pleasant Experiment by tying the recurrent Nerves in a living Dogg. 1724 W. Stukeley Of Spleen 21 The first or par vagum is distributed to all the parts within the thorax, the lungs and heart, and by what they call the recurrent branch, to the wind-pipe and gullet. 1731 T. Lobb Treat. Smallpox i. 12 Abatement of these Swellings is not the Effect of any Return of the Humour inwards into the Blood again by any recurrent Vessels. 1775 J. Jenkinson Linnæus' Generic & Specific Descr. Brit. Plants Gloss. Recurrent, running backwards. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 190 The corolla, whose tube has five nerves..dividing at top into recurrent branches. 1877 Gray's Anat. (ed. 8) 704 The tubes taking the course above described form a kind of loop, and are known as the looped or recurrent tubes of Henle. 1916 Amer. Jrnl. Anat. 19 451 Its most significant feature is the description of recurrent bronchi..growing from the air-sacs into the lungs and anastomosing with the parabronchi. 1947 A. D. Imms Outl. Entomol. (ed. 3) ii. 29 This ganglion is joined by bilateral connectives..to the tritocerebrum and gives off a recurrent nerve. 1954 Times 3 July 11/9 Both her recurrent laryngeal nerves were damaged. 1993 Plastic & Reconstructive Surg. 92 1137 This plexus is also fed by communicating branches from the radial recurrent artery. b. Physiology. Of or relating to sensation (esp. of pain) associated with the ventral (chiefly motor) root of a spinal nerve, originally attributed to recurrent fibres from the dorsal root; esp. in recurrent sensibility. Now historical. ΚΠ 1847 Lancet 13 July 132/1 M. Magendie communicated a note on Recurrent Sensibility. 1873 A. Flint Nerv. Syst. ii. 82 The sensibility of the anterior root is recurrent, being derived from the posterior root through the periphery. 1946 Jrnl. Hist. Med. 1 182 His [sc. Magendie's] experiment on recurrent sensibility gave rise to another contest with Longet. 1983 Science 25 Nov. 934 There are many sensory fibers in ventral roots... This..provides an explanation for the clinical phenomenon of recurrent sensibility. 1997 Progress in Neurobiol. 51 92/2 The pain reaction reflecting recurrent sensibility was relieved by section of the corresponding dorsal root. 2. a. Occurring again, esp. regularly. ΚΠ 1629 L. Andrewes XCVI. Serm. v. 223 It is a yearely recurrent fast. 1662 P. Gunning Paschal or Lent-Fast (Appendix) x. 539 Speaking of the yearly recurrent fast of Lent. 1701 tr. N. Andry Acct. Breeding Worms in Human Bodies v. 120 In some their Eyes are of the colour of Blood, a Pulse unequal and recurrent. 1776 A. Wilson Med. Res. Hysterics x. 99 The persons most susceptible of the attacks of this disease, are generally such as have the apperance of the greatest health..in such constitutions, it frequently becomes recurrent and habitual. 1850 J. S. Blackie tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas I. 47 From time to time In children's children recurrent appears The ancestral crime. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xxvi. 368 The bands must be due to some regularly recurrent cause. 1920 Act 10 & 11 George V c. 67 §21 (1) To impose any tax, whether recurrent or non-recurrent, of the nature of a general tax upon capital. 2007 Times (Nexis) 15 Nov. 38 The three-day strike by freight train drivers..is part of their recurrent demand for exceptional pay rises. b. Medicine. Of a disease, symptom, or condition: occurring again, esp. repeatedly or periodically; reappearing after remission or apparent cure. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > [adjective] > repeated or recurring recurring1511 repeated1577 reiterated1592 round1620 recurrent1666 tautological1677 recurrable1846 1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus xiv. 72 Short intermittent, or swift recurrent pains do precipitate patients into Consumptions. 1724 J. Maubray Female Physician xxviii. 111 If the number of recurrent paroxysms be summed up, they will exactly amount to the aforesaid 336 Hours. 1768 G. Fordyce Elements Pract. Physic: Pt. II (ed. 2) 5 Recurrent Fevers, consisting of more than one period, no single one lasting more than twenty-four hours. 1852 J. Paget Lect. Surg. Pathol. ii. 155 I have proposed the name of Recurrent Fibroid tumour. 1893 A. S. Eccles Sciatica 82 Six patients have suffered from recurrent sciatica after periods varying from six months to four years. 1967 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 114 563/1 The clinical course of three patients with recurrent primary brain tumors has not been altered by intra-arterial chemotherapy. 1991 Atlantic Aug. 85/2 Barney began to suffer from anxiety, insomnia, nightmares, and a recurrent ulcer. 2002 Daily Tel. 3 May 24/8 Recurrent nasal polyps are common in people with other respiratory conditions, such as asthma, hay fever and chronic sinusitis. c. Crystallography. Designating multiple twinning (twinning n.² 2a); exhibiting such twinning. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > crystal (general) > crystal types > [adjective] > composite crystals > twin > types of polysynthetic1805 recurrent1813 1813 F. Accum Elements Crystallogr. iv. i. 280 Recurrent, when, on taking the faces of the crystal by annular rows, from one extremity to the other, we have two numbers, which succeed several times, as, four, eight, four, eight, four. Ex. Recurrent oxid of tin. 1976 Faraday Discuss. (Royal Soc. Chem.) 61 119 In the mineral zussmanite..a kind of recurrent twinning leads to the establishment of localized bands of a new phase. 2002 Jrnl. Solid State Chem. 165 214/1 A recurrent twinning characterized by a three fold axis from one block to the subsequent one occurs in the crystals studied. †3. a. That returns quickly. Also: having recourse to. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Recurrent, returning hastily, running again or back quickly, having recourse to. b. Of a verse: that reads the same both forwards and backwards, palindromic. Cf. sense B. 1. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [adjective] > relating to or consisting of lines > palindromic Sotadical1610 retrograde1653 recurrent1706 reciprocal1728 Sotadean1774 Sotadic?a1814 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Recurrents, or Recurrent Verses, such Verses as are read the same backward and forward. 1799 E. Du Bois Wreath 45 The recurrent verse breaks a sentence in a similar manner, in that exquisite Elegy, the Pharmaceutria of Theocritus. 1821 New Monthly Mag. 2 170 The Palindromes, or Canorine, or recurrent verses, as they were called. c. That returns repeatedly to a subject. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1895 A. Symons London Nights 63 And with the dawn that vision came again To an unrested and recurrent brain. B. n.¹ †1. A verse which reads the same forwards and backwards. Cf. sense A. 3b. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > line > other types of line underverse1579 recurrent1605 serpentine verse1605 acatalectic1611 rumbler1670 Pindaric1697 quadruped1800 octonarius1819 asynartete1830 pada1855 chronostichon1859 jingle-jangle1864 sevener1920 1605 W. Camden Remaines ii. 26 Beside these [metres], our Poets hath their knacks as young Schollers call them, as Ecchos.., Serpentine verses, Recurrents, Numeralls, &c. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia (at cited word) A kind of verses called Recurrents. 1751 R. O. Cambridge Scribleriad ii. 16 (note) Reciprocal verses, (also called Retrograde and Recurrents) give the same words whether read backwards or forwards. 2. Anatomy. A recurrent nerve or blood vessel; spec. a recurrent laryngeal nerve (see sense A. 1a). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > [noun] > others life vein?1515 recurrent1615 subclavian1615 pyloric1714 pudendal1752 prester1753 shunt1923 the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > types of nerves > [noun] sensitive?a1425 motivec1475 life stringc1522 recurrent1615 life corda1631 abducent1681 cord1774 chord1783 motor1824 afferent1828 excitor1836 nerve trunk1850 mixed nerve1861 inhibitory nerve1870 nervelet1875 vaso-motor1887 pilomotor1892 lemniscus1913 the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > specific nerves > [noun] > pairs of cranial nerves > specific cranial nerves optic sinew?c1425 recurrent nerve1578 optic1615 optic nerve1615 recurrent1615 par vagum1666 fourth nerve1681 accessory nerve1682 chorda tympani1807 abducens1809 hypoglossus1811 pneumogastric1826 pneumogastric nerve1827 hypoglossal nerve1828 facial1834 fifth nerve1836–9 vagus1840 vagal nerve1854 vagus nerve1856 Jacobson's nerve1860 oculomotor1868 trigeminus1875 hypoglossal1876 oculimotor1890 pathetic1890 sixth1899 trigeminal1899 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. iv. ii. f. 19/2 The muscles, which are serviceable to the speach, or voyce, as are the recurrentes, or retrogradinge muscles.] 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 365 When it commeth to the Axillary artery..it transmitteth..three braunches from the inner side..which being reflected toward the head and vnited do make the right Recurrent. 1724 W. Stukeley Of Spleen 101 All the pairs of nerves..were large and very discernible, particularly the recurrent upon the body of the medulla spinalis. 1741 A. Monro Anat. Nerves 53 in Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) The Muscles of the Larynx being in a good measure supplied with Nerves from the Recurrents. 1808 J. Barclay Muscular Motions 254 The course of the nervous branches that are called recurrents. 1858 T. W. Nunn Observ. & Notes Arteries of Limbs 15 Plexus formed about the elbow by branches of the superior and inferior profunda, anastomotic, and recurrents of the radial, ulnar, and interosseous. 1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. iv. 554 Pressure on the right recurrent, which may be produced by innominate or subclavian aneurysm, will have a corresponding effect on the right vocal cord. 1913 Lancet 31 May 1528/2 Right recurrent paralysis and dysphagia were almost always due to malignant disease of the œsophagus. 2002 Diabetes & Metabolism 28 413 In the case described,..unilateral temporary vocal cord palsy caused by right inferior laryngeal nerve (recurrent) paralysis associated with type 1 diabetes mellitus is presented. Compounds recurrent fever n. Medicine fever that recurs at intervals; an instance of this; spec. = relapsing fever n. at relapsing adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > other fevers fever hectica1398 emitrichie1398 hectic1398 etisie1527 emphysode fever1547 frenzy-fever1613 purple fever1623 prunella1656 marcid fever1666 remittent1693 feveret1712 rheumatic fever1726 milk fever1739 stationary fever1742 febricula1746 milky fever1747 camp-disease1753 camp-fever1753 sun fever1765 recurrent fever1768 rose fever1782 tooth-fever1788 sensitive fever1794 forest-fever1799 white leg1801 hill-fever1804 Walcheren fever1810 Mediterranean fever1816 malignant1825 relapsing fever1828 rose cold1831 date fever1836 rose catarrh1845 Walcheren ague1847 mountain fever1849 mill fever1850 Malta fever1863 bilge-fever1867 Oroya fever1873 hyperpyrexia1875 famine-fever1876 East Coast fever1881 spirillum fevera1883 kala azar1883 black water1884 febricule1887 urine fever1888 undulant fever1896 rabbit fever1898 rat bite fever1910 Rhodesian sleeping sickness1911 sandfly fever1911 tularaemia1921 sodoku1926 brucellosis1930 Rift Valley fever1931 Zika1952 Lassa fever1970 Marburg1983 1768 G. Fordyce Elements Pract. Physic: Pt. II 3 Recurrent fevers, consisting of more than one Period, no single one lasting more than 24 hours, or till the Evening following. 1860 Lancet 7 Jan. 1/2 The resemblance of this appalling disease in some of its features to an occasional epidemic of our time—the relapsing or recurrent fever..is striking. 1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) x. 249 Conveyance from one patient to another by biting insects has been proved to occur in the case of Sp. duttoni, the parasite of African recurrent (‘tick’) fever. 2002 Bristol Evening Post (Nexis) 9 Mar. 13 In 19th century India malaria killed a million babies under the age of one and another million under the age of 10, disabling another two million with recurrent fevers. recurrent nova n. Astronomy a nova that undergoes recurrent outbursts (outburst n. 1c). ΚΠ 1933 Observatory 65 334 It is probably only a matter of time before other ex-novæ will be found to brighten again, and the existence of a class of recurrent novæ must be recognised. 1956 Vistas in Astron. 2 1140 III.B₁. Recurrent Novae—Characterized by repeated outbursts in which they behave very like ordinary novae, although with some peculiarities, and by typical symbiotic spectrum when at minimum light. 2006 Scotsman (Nexis) 8 Apr. 32 RS Oph, known as a recurrent nova, has reached its current level of brightness only five times in the past 108 years. recurrent polyserositis n. Medicine = familial Mediterranean fever n. at Mediterranean fever n. 2. ΚΠ 1958 M. Rachmilewitz et al. in Israel Med. Jrnl. 17 150 (title) Tuberculin sensitivity in recurrent polyserositis (periodic disease). 1970 Israel Jrnl. Med. Sci. 6 9/1 The name recurrent polyserositis..describes the underlying pathological lesion, a recurrent inflammation of various serous membranes. 2006 Lancet 25 Mar. 1016/1 The disorder might also be referred to as recurrent polyserositis, recurrent hereditary polyserositis, periodic disease, and periodic peritonitis. recurrent relation n. a relation in which the result of an operation is applied as a new input; (Mathematics) = recurrence relation n. at recurrence n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > algebra > [noun] > expression > with reference to preceding members of series recurrence formula1893 recurrent relation1897 recurrence relation1912 1897 Philos. Trans. 1896 (Royal Soc.) A. 187 522 These recurrent relations between the functions for different values of n hold for general complex values of m and n. 1931 E. W. Hobson Theory Spherical & Ellipsoidal Harmonics ii. 67 Recurrent relations..between the functions Q_n(μ) for different values of n. 1990 G. Z. Sun et al. in Internat. Joint Conf. Neural Networks I. 579 The final correction is made at the end of input patterns. These recurrent relations can be derived in terms of chain rule of the derivative of the error function. 2002 Jrnl. Appl. Probability 39 408 (heading) Number of customers served: recurrent relation. recurrent series n. Mathematics = recurring series n. at recurring adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > numerical arrangement > [noun] > set > sequence > series > recurring recurring series1738 recurrent series1763 1763 W. Emerson Method of Increments 144 To find the sum of 50 terms of the recurrent series..1 + 3x + 8x² + 21x³, &c. 1879 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 2 250 If, instead of multiplying numerator and denominator by 1 + a¹⁰, we multiply by the infinite series 1 + a¹⁰ + a²⁰ +.., the denominator becomes representative and the invariantive part of the numerator becomes the recurrent series given in the table. 1967 Econometrica 35 264 The power series G(z)..is a recurrent series which is absolutely convergent in the disk \|z\| < \|r₁⁻¹\|. 1992 Amer. Math. Monthly 99 541 Most of his books and articles concentrate on number theory, recurrent series, and recreational mathematics. Derivatives reˈcurrently adv. repeatedly. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > [adverb] > repeatedly day and nightOE morning, noon, and nightc1325 new and newa1425 time after time?a1425 over and overa1470 toties quoties1525 again and again1533 reiteratively1619 over and over again1637 repeatedlya1647 times without number1658 to and again1659 —— in, —— out1815 time and time again1821 day in (and) day out1824 recurringly1828 repetitiously1828 recurrently1841 repetitively1872 ever and again1880 recursively1901 twenty-four hours a day1914 serially1978 1841 C. Lane in tr. Z. C. Gatti de Gamond Phalanstery Introd. p. iii This Uniter, Unity, Unit, or One, is the premonitor whence exists the premonition 'Unity', which so recurrently becomes conscious in man. 1877 ‘H. A. Page’ T. De Quincey: Life & Writings II. xix. 183 This tendency to real life..declaring itself recurrently and with great strength. 1903 H. James Ambassadors i. iii. 30 Strether was in fact recurrently shameless in the presence of the tailors, though it was just over the heads of the tailors that his countryman most loftily looked. 2004 M. M. Lewis Scars of Soul i. iii. 53 As a teenager I recurrently handed over test tubes of urine for my father to take back to his job. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see also also refers to : re-currentn.² < adj.n.¹1578 see also
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