REHABILITATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rehabilitation mean? 

• REHABILITATION (noun)
  The noun REHABILITATION has 4 senses:

1. the restoration of someone to a useful place in society

2. the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation

3. vindication of a person's character and the re-establishment of that person's reputation

4. the treatment of physical disabilities by massage and electrotherapy and exercises

  Familiarity information: REHABILITATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REHABILITATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The restoration of someone to a useful place in society

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("rehabilitation" is a kind of...):

restoration (the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rehabilitation"):

correctional rehabilitation (providing penal custody or probation or parole for convicted offenders)

physical rehabilitation; physical restoration; therapeutic rehabilitation (providing help for disabled persons; the removal or reduction of disabilities)

vocational rehabilitation (providing training in a specific trade with the aim of gaining employment)

Derivation:

rehabilitate (help to readapt, as to a former state of health or good repute)

rehabilitate (reinstall politically)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

reclamation; rehabilitation; renewal

Hypernyms ("rehabilitation" is a kind of...):

restoration (the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rehabilitation"):

re-afforestation; reforestation (the restoration (replanting) of a forest that had been reduced by fire or cutting)

urban renewal (the clearing and rebuilding and redevelopment of urban slums)

Derivation:

rehabilitate (restore to a state of good condition or operation)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Vindication of a person's character and the re-establishment of that person's reputation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("rehabilitation" is a kind of...):

exoneration; vindication (the act of vindicating or defending against criticism or censure etc.)

Derivation:

rehabilitate (reinstall politically)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The treatment of physical disabilities by massage and electrotherapy and exercises

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("rehabilitation" is a kind of...):

physiatrics; physical therapy; physiotherapy (therapy that uses physical agents: exercise and massage and other modalities)

Derivation:

rehabilitate (restore to a state of good condition or operation)

 Context examples 

A free standing rehabilitation center or a rehabilitation center within a general medical facility.

(Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Including Rehabilitation distinct Part Units of a Hospital, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

The patient will be admitted full time into a free standing rehabilitation center or a rehabilitation center within a general medical facility.

(Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Including Rehabilitation distinct Part Units of a Hospital, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Other possible treatments include pain relievers, keeping the injured area from moving, rehabilitation, and sometimes surgery.

(Joint Disorders, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

Clinical specialists in pediatric nursing practice across the trajectory of care in settings which include primary, acute, community, or rehabilitation.

(Pediatric nurse specialist, NCI Thesaurus)

Medicine and rehabilitation therapy can also help.

(Hydrocephalus, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

Treatments can affect eating, speaking or even breathing, so patients may need rehabilitation.

(Head and Neck Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

A group of researchers, cancer centers, and community doctors who provide infrastructure for studies of new cancer treatment, prevention, early detection, quality of life, and rehabilitation.

(Clinical Trials Cooperative Group, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

A trained non-medical health professional who specializes in the identification, testing, habilitation and rehabilitation of hearing loss and other auditory and balance disorders.

(Audiologist, NCI Thesaurus)

A medical facility equipped and staffed to provide prolonged care to patients, usually in cases when rehabilitation or total patient care are necessary.

(Medicare Certified Long Term Care Hospital, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

Nutrition studies will usually be in the carcinogenesis, prevention, or epidemiology programs but occasionally are associated with treatment or rehabilitation.

(Nutrition, Other, NCI Thesaurus)