recurrent
/rɪˈkʌrənt/adjective
1
- occurring often or repeatedly, especially (of a disease or symptom) recurring after apparent cure or remission(尤指疾病或症状看似治愈或减轻后)复发的, 反复出现的:
she had a recurrent dream about falling
她反复梦见跌倒
recurrent fever.
回归热。
2
- Anatomy (of a nerve or blood vessel) turning back so as to reverse direction【剖】(神经, 血管)返回的。
派生词
recurrently
adverb词源
late 16th cent. (in sense 2): from Latin recurrent- 'running back', from the verb recurrere (see RECUR).