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metachronous

adjective

  1. occurring at different times (contrasts with recurrence: a metachronous cancer is a new, different cancer, not a recurrence of the prior cancer)
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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: By surface analysis, meta- + chron- + -ous.

  1. Occurring at a different time to that of a specified event.
  2. Having parts formed at different times.