recurrent fever

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recurrent fever - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Anat.) Running back toward its origin; as, a recurrent
        nerve or artery.
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     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.
        [1913 Webster]

recurrent fever - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  recurrent fever
      n 1: marked by recurring high fever and transmitted by the bite
           of infected lice or ticks; characterized by episodes of
           high fever and chills and headache and muscle pain and
           nausea that recur every week or ten days for several months
           [syn: relapsing fever, recurrent fever]