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rehabilitation

UK/ˌɹiː.əˌbɪl.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/US/ˌɹiː.əˌbɪl.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/
nounC1Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,650 of 15,258leans written

Rehabilitation is treatment that helps somebody return to normal life. Physical rehabilitation, drug rehabilitation, a long rehabilitation.

In prison policy it is one of the four stated purposes of punishment, alongside deterrence, protection and retribution, and how much weight it gets is the whole argument. After injury, the exercises are usually more important than the surgery. The Latin means to make able again.

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Definitions of rehabilitation

  1. 1nounrehabilitationTreatment that helps somebody return to normal life.C1

    “After the accident, she spent months in rehabilitation, learning to walk again.”

rehabilitation is a treatment.

Where it comes from

Medieval Latin rehabilitatio means a restoring, from re- plus habilitare, to make able, from habilis, able.

  1. Medieval Latin

    rehabilitatio

  2. Middle French

    réhabilitation

  3. English, today

    rehabilitation

From Middle French réhabilitation, from Medieval Latin rehabilitatio.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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rehabilitation in the wild

  • The study of penology therefore deals with the treatment of prisoners and the subsequent rehabilitation of convicted criminals.

    Penology

  • Contemporary penology concerns itself mainly with criminal rehabilitation and prison management.

    Penology

  • The Rusk Institute has been voted the best rehabilitation hospital in New York and among the top ten in the country since 1989, when U.S.

    Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine

  • As of 2008 Steven Flanagan is the chairman of rehabilitation medicine and medical director of the Rusk Institute.

    Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine

  • Mary Puthisseril Verghese was an Indian physician who was among the earliest pioneers of physical medicine and rehabilitation in India.

    Mary Verghese

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