rehabilitant

plural rehabilitants

1. One who is being or has been rehabilitated.

   The rehabilitator and the rehabilitant assess each other.

   1973, James F. Garrett, Edna Simon Levine, Rehabilitation Practices with the Physically Disabled, page 20

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   This does happen for some; for example, peer counseling experience gained as an advanced rehabilitant working with more recently admitted clients/patients has been a stepping stone toward professional training for a number of people.

   2003, Carolyn L. Vash, Nancy M. Crewe, Psychology of Disability, →ISBN, page 256

   Considering rehabilitant variants that are modifications of provisional wild innovations, geographic prevalence was wider in wild orangutans for 7 entries, roughly equal for 16 entries, and wider in rehabilitants for 20 entries.

   2010, Serge A. Wich, S Suci Utami Atmoko, Tatang Mitra Setia, Orangutans: Geographic Variation in Behavioral Ecology and Conservation, →ISBN

   Rijksen (1978) observed a rehabilitant aggressively Jabbing with a long stick at a caged clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa).

   2011, Robert W. Shumaker, Kristina R. Walkup, Benjamin B. Beck, Animal Tool Behavior: The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals, →ISBN

comparative more rehabilitant · superlative most rehabilitant

1. Undergoing or pertaining to rehabilitation.

   There are no differences, on any of the twenty factors studied, between the rehabilitant and non-rehabilitant groups.

   1961, Dissertation Abstracts - Volume 21, Issue 4, page 2980

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   However, some evidence exists on spatial memory in both wild and captive apes and on delayed imitation in rehabilitant apes.

   2007, Joanna Blake, Routes to Child Language: Evolutionary and Developmental Precursors, →ISBN

   Recently sensory involvement in relation to pain has been studied asserting the clinical observation of pain ranging from mild to severe in the acute and rehabilitant phases.

   2011, Doug Elliott, Leanne Aitken, Wendy Chaboyer, ACCCN's Critical Care Nursing, →ISBN, page 468