Pasikartotos

Pasikartotos is a Lithuanian adjective formed from the verb pasikartoti, meaning to recur or happen again. It is used to describe events, conditions, or phenomena that reappear after a period of time or after an interruption. The form pasikartotos is typically used with feminine plural nouns, such as pasikartotos ligos (recurrent diseases) or pasikartotos atakos (recurrent attacks).

In medical and scientific contexts, pasikartotos denotes conditions that return after treatment, remission, or temporary improvement. It can also be applied more broadly to recurring phenomena, such as pasikartotos epidemijos (recurrent epidemics) or pasikartotos problemos (recurrent problems). The term helps distinguish between single occurrences and those that persist or reappear over time.

Etymology-wise, pasikartotos derives from pasikartoti (to recur) with the typical participial suffix -otas, forming a descriptive adjective. The word agrees with the noun it modifies in gender, number, and case, for example: pasikartotos ligos, pasikartotos atakos.

Related terms include pasikartojimas (the noun form meaning recurrence or repetition) and related participles such as pasikartojančios (recurring, present participle). The concept is common in clinical reporting, epidemiology, and general discourse when describing conditions that reappear after a period of absence or remission.