repeated

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Being & falling ill
acquire
be a martyr to somethingidiom
be green around the gillsidiom
be hangingidiom
be laid upidiom
be out of sortsidiom
bring
declension
develop
lay someone up
martyr
not a hundred percentidiom
pick
pick someone/something up
predisposed
serious
shiver
sicken
strike
succumb

recurrentadjective (TURNING BACK)

anatomy specialized
A recurrent blood vessel or nerve turns back to run in the opposite direction:
The radial recurrent artery arises immediately below the elbow.
The recurrent laryngeal nerve then travels back up the neck.
The third recurrent articular nerve ascends with the anterior recurrent tibial artery through the tibialis anterior to the front of the knee.
Diabetic neuropathy is not known to cause damage to the recurrent laryngeal nerve.
At the lower part of the neck, the right recurrent nerve crosses obliquely behind the artery.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Substances & structures in the body
abductor
accessorius
ACL
actin
adductor
fundus
funiculus
fusiform
glomerular
glomerulus
myosin
navicular
neuroendocrine
neurohormonal
neurohormone
tendinous
tendinum
tendo
tensor
Th

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The circulatory system & blood
The brain & nervous system

Examples of recurrent

recurrent
The roles of sea level and tectonics in controlling sedimentation and facies architecture are recurrent themes.
Regularity means, in a strict sense, accountability by a symbolic rule or a recurrent pattern.
It was during this simultaneous process that recurrent patterns and themes became clearer in the researchers' minds.
The stroke incidence and survival spreadsheets include categorization by both "first-ever" and "recurrent stroke" rates for the three treatment pathways.
Whether the recurrent episode is symptomatic or asymptomatic may depend, at least in part, on the number of virus particles present at the skin surface.
If the annual grant cannot cover the recurrent expenditure, it releases additional funds.
Behind the apparently informal exposition there is an astonishingly comprehensive, consistent and original theory of practical reason in the context of recurrent games.
Apparently, as earlier indicated, the main concern in the decision-making process is keeping afloat regional administrative machinery by covering recurrent expenditure, especially salary costs.
These plausibly innate (but maturing), domain-specific cognitive faculties are candidates for naturally-selected adaptations to relevant and recurrent aspects of ancestral environments.
Diabetic ulcers are often caused by recurrent pressure in neuropathic extremities and may be complicated by diminished blood flow in small and larger vessels.
Ideological analysis takes conflict over such matters to be a recurrent feature of social and political life.
As mentioned, one patient in this series underwent five surgical excisions of the primary and recurrent spinal cord tumours.
This patient suffered from recurrent pericardial effusions and the susceptibility differences may be caused by various layers of deposits of fibrin.
It is a recurrent theme of cultural interpretation of landscapes that accessibility is played off against visibility.
Recurrent atelectasis persisted despite bronchial suctioning, and repeated attempts of weaning from the ventilator were unsuccessful.
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