full recovery

Back to normal

Full recovery is a return to the original or normal state after illness, injury, or setback.

In medical contexts, it means regaining complete health with no lasting impairment: Doctors expect a full recovery after surgery.

The phrase extends to financial or emotional rebounds: The economy made a full recovery within two years.

Full recovery implies nothing is left diminished.

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degree of healing/restoration

full recoverypartial recovery

Restoration that's not complete

permanent damage · chronic condition · lingering symptoms · partial remission · permanent disability

health trajectory/outcome

full recoverydeath

Cessation of life

terminal decline · deterioration · succumbing · fatality · decline

finality of medical outcome

full recoverydeath

Cessation of life

fatality · succumbing · loss of life · mortality · terminal illness

Family

full, fully, fullness, fuller, fullest, fulsome, fulfill, fulfillment, recovery

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