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Meanings of convalescence in English

Portuguese
recuperação
Catalan
recuperació
Spanish
recuperación

Gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury.

recuperação
Synonyms
Examples for "recovery"
Examples for "recovery"
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Business Asia Week Ahead: Can China trade add to the recovery tale?
Reuters
2
The Australian scheme however has some serious problems in the recovery phase.
The Guardian
3
The government had previously said 2013 would be a year of recovery.
Reuters
4
News reports detail a recovery beset by delays, bureaucracy, and political friction.
Radio NZ
5
Analysts expect the debt crisis to further delay recovery in the sector.
Reuters
1
This was a serious job and officers needed their rest and recuperation.
Roma Victrix
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The finer the nervous organism, the slower is the process of recuperation.
Heart of the Sunset
3
Coasting recuperation can recover power to the battery as can braking recuperation.
The Irish Times
4
He had gone abroad for medical care and recuperation in early 2009.
The Irish Times
5
Soon after, Humphreys collapsed and returned to Philadelphia for an extended recuperation.
Rising tide: the great mississippi flood of 1927 and how it chan...
Usage of convalescence in English
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The Old Bachelor was written for amusement, in the languor of convalescence.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 08 / ...
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The cure is incomplete till the full tide of health follows convalescence.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinth...
3
These disturbances disappear as soon as convalescence sets in and consciousness returns.
Valere Aude: Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regen...
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Then came the feeling of wounded pride, the last step towards convalescence.
Who Cares? A Story of Adolescence
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In patients with AH, the levels of serum HA decreased during convalescence.
Pubmed
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And this discovered faculty charmed the long, solitary hours of his convalescence.
A Set of Six
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It can also be used by the patient occasionally, especially during convalescence.
A Practical Physiology: A Text-Book for Higher Schools
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But Innstetten wished to do what he could to hasten the convalescence.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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Anyhow, I am a convalescent, and the privileges of convalescence are mine.
Mary Gray
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In the process of Arithelli's convalescence, comedy fought for place with tragedy.
The Hippodrome
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Like remembering how to walk after too long a convalescence in bed.
Existence
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Severe hemorrhage complicated the case, but was controlled, and convalescence speedily ensued.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Dólokhov recovered, and Rostóv became very friendly with him during his convalescence.
War and Peace
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During my convalescence Edmee was much more reserved, but no less attentive.
Mauprat
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The period of Wargrave's convalescence was a very happy time for him.
The Jungle Girl
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Anything more sarcastic than that man in his convalescence you couldn't imagine.
Chronicles of Avonlea
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Convalescence through the time
Convalescence across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common