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Revalescence

Revalescence \Rev`a*les"cence\, n. The act of growing well; the state of being revalescent.

Would this prove that the patient's revalescence had been independent of the medicines given him?
--Coleridge.

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revalescence

n. 1 The act of growing well, or recovering from illness. 2 The state of being revalescent.