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 relapsing fever 名詞
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 Re·cur·rent a.
 1. Returning from time to time; recurring; as, recurrent pains.
 2. Anat. Running back toward its origin; as, a recurrent nerve or artery.
 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.
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 Re·laps·ing, a. Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state.
 Relapsing fever Med., an acute, epidemic, contagious fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia, and some other regions. It is marked by one or two remissions of the fever, by articular and muscular pains, and by the presence, during the paroxism of spiral bacterium (Spirochaete) in the blood. It is not usually fatal. Called also famine fever, and recurring fever.
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 relapsing fever
      n : 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: recurrent fever]