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Definition of Healing
1. Adjective. Tending to cure or restore to health. "Therapeutic diets"
Similar to: Healthful
Derivative terms: Cure, Remedy
2. Noun. The natural process by which the body repairs itself.
Specialized synonyms: Convalescence, Recovery, Recuperation, Conglutination, Union
Derivative terms: Heal, Heal
Definition of Healing
1. a. Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying; as, the healing art; a healing salve; healing words.
Definition of Healing
1. Noun. The process where the cells in the body regenerate and repair themselves. ¹
2. Noun. An act of healing, as by a faith healer. ¹
3. Noun. The psychological process of dealing with a problem or problems. ¹
4. Verb. (present participle of heal) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Healing
1. heal [v] - See also: heal
Medical Definition of Healing
1. 1. Restoring to health; promoting the closure of wounds and ulcers. 2. The process of a return to health. 3. Closing of a wound. See: union. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Healing
Literary usage of Healing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
""If death come at daybreak, may healing come at night! ... Let showers shower
down new waters, new earth, new trees, new health, and new healing powers. ..."
2. The Word by Harold Waldwin Percival (1913)
"Ay, even though it be a healing of the most rudimentary kind, ... And we name
the body of healing the Christ-body, because it is of the order or degree of ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1896)
"The third and fifth concern the healing of open wounds, and are referred to only
... (A) healing by primary adhesion without separation of surfaces. ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"healing of a Carcinoma by Sunlight.—WIDMER (Munch, med. ... The author has likewise
seen healing follow this method of treatment in an unusually short time ..."
5. Mind (1902)
"THE GIFT OF healing. BY LC OBENCHAIN. The Apostle Paul says there are many "gifts,"
and that not all have the same "gift." Some have "the working of ..."
6. Microscopical Morphology of the Animal Body in Health and Disease by Carl Heitzmann (1882)
"How the healing process of fractured bones progresses by primary intention ...
All the numerous observations and conclusions concerning healing by primary ..."
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