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What does recurrence mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word recurrence? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. Return or reversion to a certain state.
  2. The instance of recurring; frequent occurrence.
  3. A return of symptoms as part of the natural progress of a disease.
  4. Recourse.
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For decades children were given long term anticonvulsant drugs to prevent the recurrence of febrile seizures.
The continuous bleeding from the operated ear may due to some reparative granulation in the area or due to recurrence of the disease.
No further chemotherapy or radiotherapy could be given to control this recurrence.
Pituitary irradiation can induce remission of disease in more than one half of patients with recurrence after surgery.
I'd also like to take antioxidant vitamins and the herbs astragalus and milk thistle to help prevent a recurrence, but my doctors disagree.
Obesity, insufficient excision, significant skin maceration, and chronic skin infection may increase the incidence of recurrence.

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