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Answer for the clue "Retrieval — restoration of health ", 8 letters:
recovery

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Recovery is the third album by Scottish Celtic rock band Runrig , released in 1981. The album deals with the social history of the Scottish Gàidhealtachd , mirroring a renewed sense of cultural and political identity within the Scottish Gaelic community. ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "return to health," from Anglo-French recoverie (c.1300), Old French recovree "remedy, cure, recovery," from past participle stem of recovrer (see recover ). Meaning "a gaining possession by legal action" is from early 15c. That of "act of righting ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. return to an original state; "the recovery of the forest after the fire was surprisingly rapid" gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury [syn: convalescence , recuperation ] the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act or process of regaining or repossession of something lost. 2 A return to normal health. 3 A return to former status or position. 4 # The act of regaining the natural position after curtseying. 5 # The act of regaining the position of guard ...

Usage examples of recovery.

After a double amputation of the legs she miscarried and made a good recovery.

Vesey speaks of amputation for compound fracture of the arm, labor following ten hours afterward with recovery.

State tribunal which prevents a recovery of taxes imposed in violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States by invoking a State law limiting suits to recover taxes alleged to have been assessed illegally to taxes paid at the time and in the manner provided by said law.

Injected subcutaneously these animal extracts are immediately assimilated and we are often able to stop, at once, the progress of disease and turn the tide towards recovery.

The luckless shaven-haired monkey or rat, guinea pig or dog bent on renouncing the laboratory world for ever found itself opening its eyes on it once more from the antiseptically scrubbed floor of its cage, its drinking vessel freshly charged, its dressings ingeniously barred from investigation, its recovery a command - even, if necessary, its benefactor would minister long hours overtime to make sure it was carried out.

Pacific waters, but it did not, and when Pope reported for duty as executive officer he learned that his immediate assignment was to accompany the carrier out of Jacksonville and into the Caribbean, where it would serve as the principal recovery vessel for the three-orbit flight which Astronaut Scott Carpenter was about to make in his Mercury capsule Aurora-7.

That would probably ruin House Barca, even if it was on the verge of recovery with other customers waiting.

An enema containing 80 grains of belladonna root has been followed in five hours by death, and Taylor has mentioned recovery after the ingestion of three drams of belladonna.

But please do extend my best wishes to the benison, and to Her Serenity for a speedy recovery.

As soon as I was brought to the inn, I went to bed, and was well cared for, but my position was such that I dreaded the moment of my recovery.

That meant contacting the Marshalsea of Toulouse for help, which meant that the reward for the recovery of the stolen jewels would slip out of his fingers into theirs.

Jealous of her quick recovery from the disasters of the Second Punic war, we tricked her into fighting the Third Punic war and utterly destroyed her, massacring her inhabitants and sowing her fields with salt.

In the law of real property, its rules of tenure and descents, its entails, its fines and recoveries, their vouchers and double vouchers, in the procedure of the Courts, the method of bringing writs and arrests, the nature of actions, the rules of pleading, the law of escapes and of contempt of court, in the principles of evidence, both technical and philosophical, in the distinction between the temporal and spiritual tribunals, in the law of attainder and forfeiture, in the requisites of a valid marriage, in the presumption of legitimacy, in the learning of the law of prerogative, in the inalienable character of the Crown, this mastership appears with surprising authority.

Industrialization and agricultural recovery were far more pressing concerns than the doubtful proprietary rights of either the Moslem nomads or the Sambusai pastoralists who often used this land.

Wirth, Fine, and Evers, all mention perforating wounds of the trachea and esophagus with recoveries.