-nt adjective
Etymology: Latin recurrent-, recurrens, present participle of recurrere to run back, recur — more at recur
1.
a. : running or turning back in a direction opposite to its former course — used of various nerves and branches of vessels in the arms and legs
the radial recurrent artery
the recurrent laryngeal nerve
b. of a veinlet : returning toward the main rib
2. : returning from time to time : appearing or coming periodically : happening again and again
food is the urgent and recurrent need of individuals and of society — Ellen Semple
investigate the recurrent … strike situation — Current Biography
an endlessly recurrent set of problems — I.A.Richards
3. : reappearing at other than the first geologic horizon
a recurrent fauna