recuperabilityn.
/rᵻˌk(j)uːp(ə)rəˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /rəˌkupərəˈbɪlᵻdi/, /riˌkupərəˈbɪlᵻdi/ Ability or capacity to recuperate.
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the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > process of healing of an injury, etc. > [noun] > ability of injured part to recover
recuperability1886
1886 C. H. Hughes in Alienist & Neurologist 7 463 Impairment so slight as to leave the nervous system in a state of almost physiological recuperability.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 864 A lesion..greatly affecting the viability and recuperability of the central mass of the spinal cord.
1944 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 44 58/1 (advt.) Whatever the degree of innate recuperability may be in any given person, it cannot function to its greatest possible extent in the face of undernutrition.
1991 E. J. Smyth Postmodernism & Contemp. Fiction iii. 60 The issue of recuperability itself became a key factor in critical debate.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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