資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Recurrent \Re*cur"rent\ (-rent), a. [L. recurrens, -entis, p.
   pr. of recurrere: cf.F. r['e]current. See {Recur}.]
   1. Returning from time to time; recurring; as, recurrent
      pains.

   2. (Anat.) Running back toward its origin; as, a recurrent
      nerve or artery.

   {Recurrent fever}. (Med.) See {Relapsing fever}, under
      {Relapsing}.

   {Recurrent pulse} (Physiol.), 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} (Physiol.), 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.