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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)

Return or reversion to a certain state.
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.
A return of symptoms as part of the natural progress of a disease.
Antonym: remission

Hyponyms: rebleed, rebleeding

Near-synonym: relapse
Recourse.

return or reversion to a certain state

the instance of recurring; frequent occurrence

a return of symptoms as part of the natural progress of a disease

recourse — see recourse