rerecovery

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ recovery.

Noun

rerecovery (plural rerecoveries)

1. 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.