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reconvalescence

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Complete restoration of health.

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Examples

  • To these may be added typhus, especially when it is of a more protracted nature, and the reconvalescence is slow and incomplete.

    Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated Max Birnbaum 1876

  • The Honourable Mr. Bidmore's letters to his father soon after announced that poor Mr. Cargill had been seized with a nervous fever, and again, that his reconvalescence was attended with so much debility, it seemed both of mind and body, as entirely to destroy his utility as a travelling companion.

    St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801

  • The Honourable Mr. Bidmore’s letters to his father soon after announced that poor Mr. Cargill had been seized with a nervous fever, and again, that his reconvalescence was attended with so much debility, it seemed both of mind and body, as entirely to destroy his utility as a travelling companion.

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

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