Word Meanings - RECURRENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Running back toward its origin; as, a recurrent nerve or artery. Recurrent fever. See Relapsing fever, under Relapsing. -- Recurrent pulse , the pulse beat which appears (when the radial artery is compressed at the wrist) on the distal side of
Additional info about word: RECURRENT
Running back toward its origin; as, a recurrent nerve or artery. Recurrent fever. See Relapsing fever, under Relapsing. -- Recurrent pulse , 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 , 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. (more info) 1. Returning from time to time; recurring; as, recurrent pains.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RECURRENT)
- Frequent
- Many
- repeated
- numerous
- recurrent
- general
- continual
- usual
- common
- Periodical
- Stated
- regular
- systematic
- calculable
- Regular
- Customary
- normal
- ordinary
- orderly
- stated
- periodical
- methodic
- established
- recognized
- formal
- symmetrical
- certain
- Remittent
- Periodic
Related words: (words related to RECURRENT)
- PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values - REPEAT
To repay or refund . To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters. Syn. - FORMALITY
The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while - STATUELESS
Without a statue. - FREQUENTATIVE
Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a frequentative verb. -- n. - STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - STATEHOOD
The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood. - STATUED
Adorned with statues. "The statued hall." Longfellow. "Statued niches." G. Eliot. - REGULARITY
The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion. - REPEATEDLY
More than once; again and again; indefinitely. - STATABLE
That can be stated; as, a statablegrievance; the question at issue is statable. - STATIONARINESS
The quality or state of being stationary; fixity. - COMMONER
1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground. - STATISTICS
Classified facts respecting the condition of the people in a state, their health, their longevity, domestic economy, arts, property, and political strength, their resources, the state of the country, etc., or respecting any particular - GENERALIZED
Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type. - GENERALIZABLE
Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge - STATANT
In a standing position; as, a lion statant. - STATHMOGRAPH
A contrivance for recording the speed of a railway train. Knight. - CALCULABLE
That may be calculated or ascertained by calculation. - STATIONARY
1. Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed. Charles Wesley, who is a more stationary man, does not believe the story. Southey. 2. Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary. - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - MAJOR GENERAL
. An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps. - OVERFREQUENT
Too frequent. - ESTATLICH; ESTATLY
Stately; dignified. Chaucer. - SAGEBRUSH STATE
Nevada; -- a nickname. - REFORMALIZE
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. - HEMASTATICS
Laws relating to the equilibrium of the blood in the blood vessels. - UNCOMMON
Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n. - OLD LINE STATE
Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line. - MENOSTATION
See MENOSTASIS - ENSTATE
See INSTATE - BIOSTATICS
The physical phenomena of organized bodies, in opposition to their organic or vital phenomena. - WEATHER STATION
A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering