Synonyms for convalescent
ˌkɒn vəˈlɛs əntcon·va·les·cent

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1. convalescentadjective

   a person who is recovering from illness

   Antonyms:
   well

2. convalescent, recoveringadjective

   returning to health after illness or debility

   "convalescent children are difficult to keep in bed"

   Synonyms:
   recovering

   Antonyms:
   well

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1. convalescentadjective

   Synonyms:
   improving (in health), recovering

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1. List of paraphrases for "convalescent":

   convalescence, infirmary, rehabilitation

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1. Manu Shankar-Hari:

   It is biologically plausible that patients who are not producing antibodies at the time of convalescent plasma therapy and those patients with excess virus may benefit more than others. Our additional analyses will explore this.

2. Janet Woodcock:

   The problem with convalescent plasma is the great enthusiasm about it, it exceeded anyone's expectation as far as the demand.

3. Salim Abdool Karim:

   Convalescent serum studies suggest natural antibodies are less effective.

4. Anthony Fauci:

   One of the things you do is you get the virus and you grow it or you put it into a modified form called a pseudovirus. And when you do that, you can then get convalescent plasma, monoclonal antibodies, as well as sera and antibodies that are induced by the vaccine to see if they neutralize the virus.

5. Anthony Fauci:

   If you look at the vaccine, the level and quality of neutralizing antibodies was comparable to and even better than what you see in the convalescent plasma of people who actually were infected and developed an immune response, it's at least as good as the response associated with natural infection.