revalescence

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Revalescence \Rev`a*les"cence\, n.
   The act of growing well; the state of being revalescent.
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         Would this prove that the patient's revalescence had
         been independent of the medicines given him?
                                                  --Coleridge.
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