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。
(Anatomy)(of a nerve or blood vessel) turning back so as to reverse direction (剖)(神经,血管)返回的
派生 recurrently adverb 语源
late 16th cent. (in sense 2): from Latin recurrent- 'running back', from the verb recurrere (see recur)