convalescent
Speech parts
1. convalescent - Noun
2. convalescent - Adjective
3. convalescent - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Recovering from sickness or debility; partially restored to health or strength.
Of or pertaining to convalescence.
One recovering from sickness.
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My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again.
At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.
convalescent children are difficult to keep in bed
"AABB recognizes the importance of ensuring that convalescent plasma is available as a transfusion therapy for patients today, as well as to develop future treatments," the agency said in a statement.
Actually, this time is was an emergency authorization by the FDA for convalescent plasma therapy — basically an infusion of antibodies from a person who has recovered from COVID into a person with an active infection.
A medical procedure doctors have used to treat novel diseases for a century has emerged as a focal point in the fight against Covid-19: convalescent plasma.