convalescence

(kŏn'və-lĕs'əns)
n.

1. Gradual return to health and strength after illness.
2. The period needed for returning to health after illness.

convalescent con'va·les'cent adj. & n.

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Quotes:

"Healing, Papa would tell me, is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature." - W. H. Auden

"With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation." - Gilbert K. Chesterton

"One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps." - Georg Groddeck

"I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while." - George Bernard Shaw

The stage of recovery from an illness, operation or injury.

For a list of words related to convalescent, see:

• Practitioners, Patients, and Facilities - convalescent: patient in period of recuperation and healing after disease or injury

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See words rhyming with "convalescence."

Dansk (Danish)
n. - bedring, rekonvalescens

Nederlands (Dutch)
herstel

Français (French)
n. - (Méd) convalescence

Deutsch (German)
n. - Genesung, Rekonvaleszenz

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ανάρρωση, (βαθμιαία) αποκατάσταση της υγείας

Italiano (Italian)
convalescenza

Português (Portuguese)
n. - convalescença (f)

Русский (Russian)
выздоровление

Español (Spanish)
n. - convalecencia

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - tillfrisknande, konvalescens

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
渐愈, 快愈期, 恢复期

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 漸愈, 快愈期, 恢復期

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 건강회복

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 快方に向かうこと, 回復期, 回復

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) نقاهه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮הבראה, החלמה‬

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