revalescence

English

Etymology

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Noun

revalescence (uncountable)

1. The act of growing well, or recovering from illness; the state of being revalescent.
   • 1853, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on English Divines, Notes on Jeremy Taylor:

     Would this prove that the patient's revalescence had been independent of the medicines given him?

Related terms

• convalescence