rehabilitant

English

Etymology

rehabilitate +‎ -ant

Noun

rehabilitant (plural rehabilitants)

1. 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)

1. 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.