revalescence

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Noun[edit]

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?

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