(v. i.) To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind.
(v. i.) To occur at a stated interval, or according to some regular rule; as, the fever will recur to-night.
(v. i.) To resort; to have recourse; to go for help.
Example Sentences:
(1) A number of recurring chromosomal abnormalities have been identified in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
(2) Although patients treated with postoperative radiation therapy showed significantly extended survival rates as compared to those receiving surgical resection alone, the glioblastoma recurred within a 2cm margin of the primary site in more than 90% of the patients and conventional external radiation therapy with a doses of 50-60 Gy did not result in local cure.
(3) Percutaneous tenotomy performed only in patients recurring after temporary cure, drops the rate of recurrences to 13%.
(4) Ventricular tachycardia did not recur and remained noninducible in two of six patients who tolerated oral nadolol alone.
(5) Following the surgery, one patient continued to exhibit PLEDs but clinical seizures were absent PLEDs recurred in the second patient due to inadequate anticonvulsant medication.
(6) It was concluded that enhanced pressure responsiveness to recurring stress might induce or at least sustain LVH in hypertensives, due to enhanced alpha-adrenoceptor responsiveness.
(7) We are reporting the case of a 23-yr-old patient who had recurring episodes of acute pancreatitis characterized by the typical abdominal pain, elevated serum levels of pancreatic enzymes, and enlargement of the pancreas and edema on sonogram.
(8) When the condylomata recur, or when the patient has AIDS, the lesions should be examined histologically for evidence of premalignant or malignant degeneration.
(9) In the first case, the patient initially underwent surgical resection of the mass and received systemic chemotherapy, but the cyst recurred 2 months later.
(10) Spitz's nevi recur uncommonly following initial removal.
(11) In general, group II lesions affected children at an earlier age, were larger at the time of diagnosis, and recurred more frequently.
(12) These spontaneous alpha, response beta, modulatory gamma, and frequency-divided delta rhythms reveal a collateral neuroendocrine hierarchy, characterized by the pineal feedsideward phenomenon, as a feature of interactions recurring with circadian and infradian frequencies.
(13) Conversely, when obesity was permitted to recur by giving the mice free access to food, PRL levels reverted back to the original obese pattern.
(14) Haplotype analysis revealed that the Val----Met mutation has recurred frequently in the population to generate the FAP families of independent origins.
(15) Symptomatic hypercalcemia recurred during lactation after each of two pregnancies, associated with increased bone turnover (rise in ALP, osteocalcin, and urine hydroxyproline excretion) which appeared to be independent of changes in major calcium-regulating hormones.
(16) However, atrial flutter often recurs despite the use of these conventional antiarrhythmic regimens.
(17) After four hours, symptoms recurred much more often in the placebo group.
(18) Intricate is the key word, as screwball dialogue plays off layered wordplay, recurring jokes and referential callbacks to build to the sort of laughs that hit you twice: an initial belly laugh followed, a few minutes later, by the crafty laugh of recognition.
(19) In older patients, these rather poorly differentiated tumors recur locally after excision in 50%-80% of cases depending on the organ site involved.
(20) If the pain recurred a second time, RF lesions were made if the pain was in the second or third division.
Recursion
Definition:
(n.) The act of recurring; return.
Example Sentences:
(1) The feasibility of estimating these parameters, demonstrated by the present study, suggests that a recursive least squares estimation procedure could be used to recover the time variation of each parameter during exercise stress testing of subjects with normal or nearly normal gas exchange.
(2) We have investigated the properties of a recursive process in which the output signal from a given RF excitation pulse may be used as the input (excitation) pulse of a subsequent iteration.
(3) A simple recursive formula, which yields an estimate for the statistical error resulting from pipetting errors accumulated throughout a dilution procedure, is described.
(4) A new three dimensional (3-D) recursive tracing algorithm was proposed.
(5) In the experimental analog, genetic selection or screening applied during recursive ensemble mutagenesis should force the evolution of an ensemble of mutants to a targeted cluster of related phenotypes.
(6) To account for the superior prognosis of hyperdiploid, B-progenitor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), we investigated the influence of trisomy in 1021 children greater than or equal to 1 year old by recursive partitioning analysis.
(7) The equilibrium equation for mixtures of two mutually competitive tight-binding ligands can be expressed in a recursive form, a form in which the dependent variable appears on both sides and the solution is found iteratively.
(8) Given the probability density, f(t), for time spent in the random compartment of the cell cycle, we derive a recursion relation for psi n(x), the probability density for cell size at birth in a sample of cells in generation n. For the case of exponential growth of cells, the recursion relation has no steady-state solution.
(9) Assuming bivariate normal distributions, it is shown that in the latter case genotypic and phenotypic means and variances, and genotype-phenotype correlation can be expressed recursively as functions of the parameters for the selection, environmental, and mutation variance.
(10) A simple recursive model of Palmore, George and Fillenbaum served as a theoretical guideline.
(11) A recursive procedure has been developed for separating the incoherent intensity from the coherent intensity via a Gaussian probability model of the membrane intra-pair separation.
(12) This paper concerns a recursive partitioning algorithm for incomplete survival data.
(13) And only by moving to this level do we avoid the vicious circularity that could befall the use of recursive systems.
(14) A recursive algorithm for estimating the higher-order statistics of arbitrary-function type, mean, and variance is obtained by introducing a new expansion form of Bayes' theorem.
(15) A recursive algorithm to compute the exact distribution of the conditional sufficient statistics of the parameters of the logistic model for such a design is given.
(16) A method of calculating inbreeding coefficients is described using a recursive algorithm.
(17) More complex cascades can be analysed recursively by subdividing them into simpler modules, which can be treated individually.
(18) The method uses a recursive algorithm for the solution of an initial-value problem in the time domain, combined with a fast Fourier transform (FFT) convolution in the space domain at each time step.
(19) Because it is a well known technique, the FFT method is only briefly described, while the philosophy of the MESE method is given in more detail and completed with a description of the recursive algorithm; (ii) select a frequency parameter suitable to describe the SMG.
(20) Both logistic regression and recursive partitioning methods for discrimination were tried.