recurrence

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From recurrent +‎ -ence, cognate with Latin recurrentia, from recurrēns (returning back, recurring), form of recurrō (I return, I recur) (English recur).

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recurrence (countable and uncountable, plural recurrences)

  1. Return or reversion to a certain state.
  2. The instance of recurring; frequent occurrence.
    • 1860, Isaac Taylor, Logic in Theolog, Without Controversy:
      I shall insensibly go on from a rare to a frequent recurrence to the dangerous preparations.
  3. A return of symptoms as part of the natural progress of a disease.
    Antonym: remission
    Hyponyms: rebleed, rebleeding
    Near-synonym: relapse
  4. Recourse.

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