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Definition of Convalescing
1. convalesce [v] - See also: convalesce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Convalescing
Literary usage of Convalescing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary of a Southern Refugee, During the War by Judith White Brockenbrough] [McGuire (1868)
"slowly convalescing. One night while sitting up with B., together with a surgeon
and General C., when we had not been able to raise him up for two days, ..."
2. Massage and therapeutic exercise by Mary McMillan (1921)
"CHAPTER VIII EMPYEMA: EXERCISES IN CASES OF convalescing EM- ... After the acute
stage has passed and during the convalescing period absorption of fluid may ..."
3. The Black Side: A Partial History of the Business, Religious, and by Edward Randolph Carter (1894)
"convalescing, he went to Chicago, where he spent five months. Returning to Atlanta,
he began business 'by peddling pies on the street. ..."
4. The Rank of Charles Osborn as an Anti-slavery Pioneer by George Washington Julian (1891)
"DURING the month of January, 1879, while convalescing from a long spell of
sickness, Robert B.. Duncan wrote these four papers about the " Old ..."
5. 88 Bis and V. I. H.: Letters from Two Hospitals by Katharine Foote (1919)
"Our Coldstream Guardsman, convalescing from pneumonia, has a splendid record,
out with BEF since August 13, 1914, three times wounded, and now almost the ..."
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