convalescent
IPA: kɑnvʌɫˈɛsʌnt
noun
- A person recovering from illness.
adjective
- recovering one's health and strength after a period of illness
- of convalescence or convalescents
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Examples of "convalescent" in Sentences
- The hospital remained a convalescent home.
- The building was originally a convalescent home.
- In November she was fitted as a convalescent ship. at Chatham.
- Convalescent Care Facilities are sometimes recognized by the abbreviation CCF.
- (Think of those affectionate 80-somethings in convalescent homes, still holding hands.)
- If the convalescent is a woman, the means of amusing her are more varied and more congenial perhaps.
- These women are sometimes called convalescent nurses and, in cases where a graduate nurse is not required, they fill a real need in the community.
- Prevention of typhus by serum from convalescent patients presupposes the existence of such patients; moreover, the quantity of serum provided by a convalescent is very small.
- Throw in other supplemental products - like accident, long-term care and short-term convalescent care insurance - and you'll have the right product to sell in any situation…or for any budget!
- While I was a prisoner in the warehouse aka convalescent home, my "caregivers" often participated in the wildly irrational and amoral schemes of their bosses, then brayed their excuse— "I was only doing my job."—as if sanctioned subservience constitutes an acquittal.
- Although everyone expected that control of the Myitkyina airport would lead easily and quickly to taking the city, the Japanese rushed in reinforcements—some 5,000 soldiers within two weeks—and Stilwell was forced to order in American convalescent soldiers to maintain an Allied presence in the area.
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