rerecovery

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noun

An additional recovery following a relapse.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nounrerecovery (plural rerecoveries)

plural rerecoveries

  1. An additional recovery following a relapse.

    Joseph Sheehan discusses relapse and rerecovery from stuttering in Chapter 6.

    1985, Asha: A Journal of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
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    One (1) patient demonstrated recovery, remission, and subsequent rerecovery, which coincided with the commencement, cessation, and retreatment with propranolol.

    2006 May, Andrew Tatham, Adrian Macfarlane, “The use of propranolol to treat central serous chorioretinopathy: an evaluation by serial OCT”, in Journal of Ocular Pharmacology & Therapeutics, volume 22, number 2

    With worrisome patients, it may be in order to predict or prescribe a relapse followed by a rerecovery, a sequence which gives greater confidence in the trustworthiness of the outcome.

    2014, Alan S. Gurman, David P. Kniskern, Handbook Of Family Therapy, →ISBN

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