rehabilitant
English
Etymology
rehabilitate + -ant
Noun
rehabilitant (plural rehabilitants)
- One who is being or has been rehabilitated.
- 1973, James F. Garrett, Edna Simon Levine, Rehabilitation Practices with the Physically Disabled, page 20:
- The rehabilitator and the rehabilitant assess each other.
- 2003, Carolyn L. Vash & Nancy M. Crewe, Psychology of Disability, →ISBN, page 256:
- This does happen for some; for example, peer counseling experience gained as an advanced rehabilitant working with more recently admitted clients/patients has been a stepping stone toward professional training for a number of people.
- 2010, Serge A. Wich, S Suci Utami Atmoko, Tatang Mitra Setia, Orangutans: Geographic Variation in Behavioral Ecology and Conservation, →ISBN:
- Considering rehabilitant variants that are modifications of provisional wild innovations, geographic prevalence was wider in wild orangutans for 7 entries, roughly equal for 16 entries, and wider in rehabilitants for 20 entries.
- 2011, Robert W. Shumaker, Kristina R. Walkup, Benjamin B. Beck, Animal Tool Behavior: The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals, →ISBN:
- Rijksen (1978) observed a rehabilitant aggressively Jabbing with a long stick at a caged clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa).
Adjective
rehabilitant (comparative more rehabilitant, superlative most rehabilitant)
- Undergoing or pertaining to rehabilitation.
- 1961, Dissertation Abstracts - Volume 21, Issue 4, page 2980:
- There are no differences, on any of the twenty factors studied, between the rehabilitant and non-rehabilitant groups.
- 2007, Joanna Blake, Routes to Child Language: Evolutionary and Developmental Precursors, →ISBN:
- However, some evidence exists on spatial memory in both wild and captive apes and on delayed imitation in rehabilitant apes.
- 2011, Doug Elliott, Leanne Aitken, Wendy Chaboyer, ACCCN's Critical Care Nursing, →ISBN, page 468:
- Recently sensory involvement in relation to pain has been studied asserting the clinical observation of pain ranging from mild to severe in the acute and rehabilitant phases.