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US
/ˌkɑnvəˈɫɛsəns/
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[ UK /kˌɒnvəlˈɛsəns/ ]
[ UK /kˌɒnvəlˈɛsəns/ ]
NOUN
- gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury
How To Use convalescence In A Sentence
- It was built as a Methodist chapel in 1910, became a convalescence hospital during the First World War, and was later partly used as a billiard hall.
- Conclusions: The above mentioned rehabilitation therapy is effective for the convalescence of CVA patients.
- The Privy Council wrote to Henry that they had visited Mary often recently "whoe god be thanked is in prosperous health and convalescence. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
- Clinical process divides typical armour hepatitis a phase: is preclinical, prodrome period, is icteric period, convalescence.
- The chemist was indignant at what he called the manoeuvres of the priest; they were prejudicial, he said, to Hippolyte's convalescence, and he kept repeating to Madame Lefrançois, "Leave him alone! leave him alone! Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life
- They required surgery of a kind, and decent care during convalescence. DARE CALL IT TREASON
- Some years ago, following a debilitating illness, I started to fill the seemingly limitless days of convalescence by expanding my programming skills.
- It is important to remember that it is a very serious condition and that recovery and convalescence can take time - months and years, rather than weeks.
- Guy had a theory that the mineral baths might speed up my convalescence.
- Popularly spoken of as the "lying-in period," and medically known as the puerperium, this time of convalescence immediately following childbirth is usually occupied by two important things: the restoration of the pelvic organs to their normal condition before pregnancy, and the starting of that wonderfully adaptative mechanism concerned with the production of the varying and daily changing food supply of the offspring. The Mother and Her Child