partial recovery
Not fully healed
Partial recovery describes improvement that falls short of full restoration.
A patient makes a partial recovery when symptoms ease but some limitations remain.
An economy achieves partial recovery when indicators improve without reaching previous levels.
The phrase acknowledges meaningful progress while tempering expectations: She made a partial recovery but never regained full use of her arm.
- incompleteLacking necessary parts
- healingRestoration of health
- getting betterProgressing toward wellness
- gradualDeveloping slowly over time
- baby stepsCautious incremental progress
improvement · rehabilitation · convalescence · walking wounded · progress · remission · bounce-back · mending · good days · fragile · work in progress · halfway · plateau · limping · tentative · slow · long road · uphill battle
- medical outcomessurvival rate, cure rate, mortality, death rate, remission
- prognosispoor prognosis, favorable, unfavorable, guarded, grim
- conditionsmedical condition, weather conditions, environmental conditions, living conditions, working conditions
partial recoveryrelapse
Return to former illness
regression · terminal decline · setback · downward spiral · decompensation
partial, recovery, part, partially, partiality, impartial, impartially, recover, recoverable