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Convalesce


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To recover health and strength gradually, after sickness or weakness; as, a patient begins to convalesce.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The assay was developed using serum antibodies collected from horses convalescing from strangles.
  • (2) The CT and MRI findings from the acute stage to the convalescent stage were considered to be characteristic of JE.
  • (3) These predictive equations originate from studies of less than or equal to 30 patients generally lacking measurements beyond the third week of convalescence.
  • (4) The voice claiming to be Chávez says he is convalescing and his closest friends betrayed him.
  • (5) The cytotoxic activity of all the strains tested was neutralized by antibody to the Hly- extracellular material and by convalescent pig serum.
  • (6) Specific immunofluorescence tests demonstrated that IgG and IgM antibodies of acute-phase serum to Rickettsia japonica, a spotted fever group rickettsia isolated from patients in Japan, were not detected, while both IgG and IgM antibody titers of convalescent-phase serum increased to 1:320.
  • (7) Throughout convalescence, no special treatment was given beyond medication.
  • (8) In four additional patients studied serially, the cell-mediated immunity was significantly increased during the recrudescence of herpetic infection, with a mean specific immune release value of 51.7 plus or minus 27.8%, compared to 8.7 plus or minus 1.5% during the convalescent period 2 to 10 weeks later (P is less than 0.05).
  • (9) Reovirus-like agents were detected by electron microscopy in the feces of 11 of 31 patients, but none was found from specimens collected during convalescence or from 16 asymptomatic matched controls (P less than 0.01).
  • (10) The immune adherence hemagglutination (IAHA) test was compared with the complement fixation (CF) test and fluorescent antibody (FA) test to measure the antibody titer to varicella-zoster virus (VZV) in 70 sera of convalescents 2 to 8 weeks after herpes zoster onset.
  • (11) Patients with myocardial infarction underwent coronary angiography in their convalescent period to determine involved vessels.
  • (12) This would involve a long period of convalescence by the patient, followed by years of living with his deformity.
  • (13) However, not all convalescent sera were suppressive, indicating that rats immunized with MBP in FCA could become refractory to EAE without assayable levels of suppressive activity in their sera.
  • (14) Bands of reactivity, of the same molecular mass as some of these, were found on immunoblots when rat and human convalescent sera were used as the source of primary antibody.
  • (15) We investigated the ultrastructure of nasal cilia in 27 children suffering from recurrent infections of the upper respiratory tract, during and after the onset of an acute respiratory infection, and after a convalescent period of 12 weeks.
  • (16) A blocking factor that abrogated leukocyte migration inhibition induced by EBV antigen was detected in acute and convalescent sera obtained from six of eight patients, whereas serum antinuclear autoantibodies were detected in the two patients whose sera failed to block leukocyte migration inhibition.
  • (17) In the event of convalescent problems of renal origin, delayed nephrectomy remains an option.
  • (18) The activities of CPK were higher in the acute stage of influenza than during the convalescence out of bed, whilst the controls showed higher activities when ambulant than during bed rest.
  • (19) Convalescent children and staff whose diarrhea had resolved and who were receiving appropriate antimicrobials were allowed to return to the larger center before negative cultures were obtained and were separated in an isolation room.
  • (20) In healthy seropositive adults, IgG antibodies with the same molecular weight polypeptides, excluding the 205K and 235K polypeptides, were detected as in convalescent CMV-MN patients.

Recover


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cover again.
  • (v. t.) To get or obtain again; to get renewed possession of; to win back; to regain.
  • (v. t.) To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of; as, to recover lost time.
  • (v. t.) To restore from sickness, faintness, or the like; to bring back to life or health; to cure; to heal.
  • (v. t.) To overcome; to get the better of, -- as a state of mind or body.
  • (v. t.) To rescue; to deliver.
  • (v. t.) To gain by motion or effort; to obtain; to reach; to come to.
  • (v. t.) To gain as a compensation; to obtain in return for injury or debt; as, to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a suit at law; to obtain title to by judgement in a court of law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery; to gain by legal process; as, to recover judgement against a defendant.
  • (v. i.) To regain health after sickness; to grow well; to be restored or cured; hence, to regain a former state or condition after misfortune, alarm, etc.; -- often followed by of or from; as, to recover from a state of poverty; to recover from fright.
  • (v. i.) To make one's way; to come; to arrive.
  • (v. i.) To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit; as, the plaintiff has recovered in his suit.
  • (n.) Recovery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The most frequently recovered beta LPB was Staphylococcus aureus, which was recovered in 356 (47%) patients.
  • (2) The patient recovered completely following discontinuation of antibiotics, transfusion of red blood cells, and treatment with glucocorticoids.
  • (3) The fifth patient recovered after 28 days of parenteral AMB.
  • (4) The ACTH deficiency recovered spontaneously, with normal cortisol responses to depot Synacthen (greater than 1380 at 6 h) and hypoglycemia (peak, 590) 14 and 18 months postpartum, respectively.
  • (5) Compared with cultures from afebrile women, organisms were recovered from 51 (93%) of 55 febrile postpartum women by using the triple-lumen transcervical culture method (P less than .001).
  • (6) N-Ethylmaleimide-sensitive 5'-nucleotide phosphodiesterase and alkaline phosphatase activities from other cell lines were also recovered in the cytosol.
  • (7) The four patients treated in our series recovered fully; the single fatal case constituted an unrecognized case of pneumococcal endocarditis.
  • (8) Following each ischaemic period [ATP], [CrP], [Pi], and [H+] all recovered to control levels within 5-10 min of initiating reperfusion.
  • (9) A quantitative index of duodenogastric reflux was obtained in each case by determining the percentage of the injected dose of 99mTechnetium-DISIDA that was recovered by continuous aspiration of gastric juice in fasting subjects.
  • (10) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
  • (11) Infectious virus was recovered 3 years after infection from selected tissues of 12 of 17 CAEV(63)-infected goats and 11 of 18 CAEV(Co)-infected goats.
  • (12) The Italian coastguard ship Bruno Gregoracci docked in Malta at about 8am and dropped off two dozen bodies recovered from this weekend’s wreck, including children, according to Save the Children.
  • (13) E. coli ATCC 13706 coliphage were recovered more often and in greater numbers than either of the other two types of coliphages.
  • (14) In contrast, the enzymic domain of the colicin (T2) remained in the aqueous phase and was recovered in a highly active form as a consequence of its dissociation from the immunity protein.
  • (15) On the seventh day, when middle ear effusions were absent, the ciliary activity had recovered to normal.
  • (16) Cultures of these isolants were inoculated experimentally into turkeys and produced lesions of chlamydiosis that were indistinguishable from those caused by the strain originally recovered from diseases turkeys on the premises.
  • (17) All cases recovered uneventfully without repeated infection.
  • (18) Most of the somatogenic binding activity was recovered by hydroxylamine treatment, which removes O-acetyl groups from tyrosine residues but not N-acetyl groups from lysine residues.
  • (19) + inf., pons + medulla), rCBF increased toward the control level gradually, and it completely recovered 60 min after recirculation.
  • (20) From the subcutaneous transplanted tumors a large number of MLuC1-positive tumor cells could easily be recovered, thus indicating the validity of the in vivo methodology.