medical miracle
Defied all prognosis
A medical miracle is an unexpected recovery or cure that defies medical explanation or probability.
The term combines clinical language with religious overtones, suggesting divine intervention or inexplicable fortune: Doctors called her survival a medical miracle.
It's often applied to patients who recover from terminal diagnoses, survive catastrophic injuries, or respond to treatments against all odds.
The phrase can be used loosely for any dramatically positive medical outcome.
- breakthroughSudden important advance
- healingRestoration of health
- full recoveryReturn to prior health
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- cureTreatment that heals
clean bill of health · remission · survivor · diagnosis · hope · prayer · Hail Mary · unexplained · spontaneous · blessing · faith · act of God · doctor · surgery · transplant · lifesaving · odds · terminal
- close callsclose call, near miss, narrow escape, close shave, nick of time
- uplifting storiessuccess story, comeback story, underdog story, redemption story, survival story
- illness storiessurvivor story, healing journey, survivor account, mental health story, brain injury
medical miracleterminal diagnosis
Illness expected to kill
death sentence · death · fatality · treatment failure · loss of life
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