convalescence
IPA: kɑnvʌɫˈɛsʌns
noun
- A gradual healing after illness or injury.
- The period of time spent healing.
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Examples of "convalescence" in Sentences
- Many of the injured girls and women went for convalescence.
- Convalescence is the gradual recovery of health and strength after illness.
- As a result, he had to return to the Netherlands for convalescence in 1856.
- Lord Ashburton, whom we had been led to suppose out of danger, made no progress in convalescence and then began to sink.
- In many diseases, especially in convalescence from fever, that wall will appear to make all sorts of faces at him; now flowers never do this.
- Moreover, each several motion takes its name rather from the goal than from the starting-point of change, e.g. motion to health we call convalescence, motion to disease sickening.
- Consequently their convalescence is slow, but, like all the Tommies, they never complain, and thoroughly appreciate the Sisters, whose every effort is on their behalf, even to the extent of buying
- "They must have confidence that when they are injured due to their service, that they and their family will be fully cared for, right through their initial treatment to their long-term convalescence," he said.
- The idea of this Christmas reunion had originated with Edith Monroe the preceding spring, during her tedious convalescence from a bad attack of pneumonia among strangers in an American city, where she had not been able to fill her concert engagements, and had more spare time in which to feel the tug of old ties and the homesick longing for her own people than she had had for years.
- This proceeding is crowned with the desired results; the convalescence is shorter and easier, and there is less danger of serious sequelæ, which, according to all experience, are so common in complicated cases of scarlatina, otorrhœa and suppuration of the parotid glands are generally avoided under this treatment without any other aid, or, if it is impossible to avert such changes, they generally come to a speedy and safe end.
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