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Convalescent vs Rehabilitation - What's the difference?

convalescent | rehabilitation |

As nouns the difference between convalescent and rehabilitation

is that convalescent is a person recovering from illness while rehabilitation is the process of rehabilitating something.

As an adjective convalescent

is recovering one's health and strength after a period of illness.

convalescent

English

Adjective

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  • Recovering one's health and strength after a period of illness.
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  • *:"Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: "Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir! "
  • Of convalescence or convalescents (see below).

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person recovering from illness.
    • I had been ill in health, but am now a convalescent .

    rehabilitation

    English

    Noun

  • The process of rehabilitating something.
  • * August 16 2014 , Daniel Taylor, " Swansea upstage Manchester United in Louis van Gaal’s Premier League bow," guardian.co.uk :
    • Maybe now it should be clearer why Louis van Gaal has been telling anyone who cares to listen they should not be surprised if Manchester United’s rehabilitation takes longer than they would ideally like.

    See also

    * rehab