Convalescent

(Think of those affectionate 80-somethings in convalescent homes, still holding hands.) ❋ Unknown (2009)

Prevention of typhus by serum from convalescent patients presupposes the existence of such patients; moreover, the quantity of serum provided by a convalescent is very small. ❋ Unknown (1965)

These women are sometimes called convalescent nurses and, in cases where a graduate nurse is not required, they fill a real need in the community. ❋ Marjory MacMurchy Willison (N/A)

Throw in other supplemental products - like accident, long-term care and short-term convalescent care insurance - and you'll have the right product to sell in any situation…or for any budget! ❋ Unknown (2011)

Although everyone expected that control of the Myitkyina airport would lead easily and quickly to taking the city, the Japanese rushed in reinforcements—some 5,000 soldiers within two weeks—and Stilwell was forced to order in American convalescent soldiers to maintain an Allied presence in the area. ❋ Hannah Pakula (2009)

While I was a prisoner in the warehouse aka convalescent home, my "caregivers" often participated in the wildly irrational and amoral schemes of their bosses, then brayed their excuse— "I was only doing my job."—as if sanctioned subservience constitutes an acquittal. ❋ Kay Olson (2007)

If the convalescent is a woman, the means of amusing her are more varied and more congenial perhaps. ❋ Harriet Camp Lounsbery (N/A)

"You've forgotten your slippers," called the convalescent typhoid after her. ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)

He is still very lame, though called convalescent, and we are trying to work his transfer over here. ❋ Erskine Childers (1896)

That was when we were what the doctor called convalescent -- that is to say, it was about a fortnight after our terrible experience in the old mine-shaft, and undoubtedly fast approaching the time when we might return to duty. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

On the third night after his visit, the spirit rent her sore, and came out of her, or, in the phrase of to-day, she had a fierce paroxysm, after which the violence of the conflict ceased, and she might be called convalescent so far as that was concerned. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)

The abbreviation was natural enough, for "convalescent" is a mouthful of a word to say, besides being very difficult to spell. ❋ George A. Birmingham (1907)

Some invaluable curative agencies, such as convalescent homes in different countries and climates and for different diseases, have grown up in our own generation, as well as some of the most fruitful forms of medical research and some of the most efficacious methods of giving healthy change and brightness to the lives that are most monotonous and overstrained. ❋ William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1870)

The open space around is a kind of convalescent marsh; that is, canals and deep ditch drains have been opened all through it, and into these the waters of the marsh flow, as a token of gratitude for the delicate little attention; at the same time, the adjacent soil, freed from its liquid encumbrance, courts the attractive charms of the sun, and has already risen from two and a half to three and a half feet above its marshy level. ❋ Henry A. Murray (N/A)