Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Gradual return to health and strength after illness.
- noun The period needed for returning to health after illness.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The gradual recovery of health and strength after sickness; renewal of health and vigor after sickness or weakness.
- noun In Roman law, the establishment of a right or title by the retroactive effect of removing an original defect in its validity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The recovery of heath and strength after disease; the state of a body renewing its vigor after sickness or weakness; the time between the subsidence of a disease and complete restoration to health.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A gradual
healing after illness or injury. - noun The period of time spent for healing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury
Etymologies
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Examples
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Moreover, each several motion takes its name rather from the goal than from the starting-point of change, e.g. motion to health we call convalescence, motion to disease sickening.
Physics Aristotle 2002
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This proceeding is crowned with the desired results; the convalescence is shorter and easier, and there is less danger of serious sequelæ, which, according to all experience, are so common in complicated cases of scarlatina, otorrhœa and suppuration of the parotid glands are generally avoided under this treatment without any other aid, or, if it is impossible to avert such changes, they generally come to a speedy and safe end.
Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent C. W. Wolf
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The idea of this Christmas reunion had originated with Edith Monroe the preceding spring, during her tedious convalescence from a bad attack of pneumonia among strangers in an American city, where she had not been able to fill her concert engagements, and had more spare time in which to feel the tug of old ties and the homesick longing for her own people than she had had for years.
Further Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1920
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Consequently their convalescence is slow, but, like all the Tommies, they never complain, and thoroughly appreciate the Sisters, whose every effort is on their behalf, even to the extent of buying
War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps John George 1918
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Lord Ashburton, whom we had been led to suppose out of danger, made no progress in convalescence and then began to sink.
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In many diseases, especially in convalescence from fever, that wall will appear to make all sorts of faces at him; now flowers never do this.
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"They must have confidence that when they are injured due to their service, that they and their family will be fully cared for, right through their initial treatment to their long-term convalescence," he said.
icCoventry 2010
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"They must have confidence that when they are injured due to their service, that they and their family will be fully cared for, right through their initial treatment to their long-term convalescence," he said.
mirror.co.uk - Home 2010
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"They must have confidence that when they are injured due to their service, that they and their family will be fully cared for, right through their initial treatment to their long-term convalescence," he said.
icNewcastle 2010
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"They must have confidence that when they are injured due to their service, that they and their family will be fully cared for, right through their initial treatment to their long-term convalescence," he said.
icCoventry 2010
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