rerecovery
English
Etymology
re- + recovery
Noun
rerecovery (plural rerecoveries)
- An additional recovery following a relapse.
- 1985, Asha: A Journal of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association:
- Joseph Sheehan discusses relapse and rerecovery from stuttering in Chapter 6.
- 2006 May, Andrew Tatham & Adrian Macfarlane, “The use of propranolol to treat central serous chorioretinopathy: an evaluation by serial OCT”, in Journal of Ocular Pharmacology & Therapeutics, volume 22, number 2:
- One (1) patient demonstrated recovery, remission, and subsequent rerecovery, which coincided with the commencement, cessation, and retreatment with propranolol.
- 2014, Alan S. Gurman & David P. Kniskern, Handbook Of Family Therapy, →ISBN:
- With worrisome patients, it may be in order to predict or prescribe a relapse followed by a rerecovery, a sequence which gives greater confidence in the trustworthiness of the outcome.
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