spontaneous recovery

collocation in English

meaningsofspontaneousandrecovery

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spontaneous
adjective
uk
/spɒnˈteɪ.ni.əs/us
/spɑːnˈteɪ.ni.əs/
happening or done in a natural, often sudden way, without any planning or without ...
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recovery
noun[S or U]
uk
/rɪˈkʌv.ər.i/us
/rɪˈkʌv.ɚ.i/
the process of becoming well again after an illness ...
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(Definition ofspontaneousandrecoveryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The first analyzesspontaneousrecovery, and the second provides a measured assessment of various efforts to train recovery.
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In general, the infant's motor function should be observed at least three months forspontaneousrecoveryprior to surgical repair.
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And sometimes it is necessary to have a period of rest before functioning well can occur again ("spontaneousrecovery").
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In most of the children, there was a transient period of apnea and bradycardia during inflation of the balloon, withspontaneousrecovery.
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Regardless of the importance of these four predictive variables, it remains unclear whether other contributing factors are being overlooked in the 18 cases that displayedspontaneousrecovery.
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By nine months after birth,spontaneousrecoveryamong those receiving routine primary care meant that women who had received the therapies no longer differed from those in primary care.
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It is aspontaneousrecoverythat is being made possible by falling interest rates, lower wage costs, reductions in mortgages and, above all, tumbling inflation.
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Most children with obstetrical brachial palsy make aspontaneousrecovery, but in severe and persistent cases—once identified early referral to consider surgical remedy is desirable.
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Whether this is significant remains doubtful; considerablespontaneousrecoveryoccurs, as well.
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Althoughspontaneousrecoverygradually increases with time after a conditioned response has been extinguished, conditioned responses do not generally return to full strength.
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Wynant is confined to home under doctor's orders and, in a fit of anger, experiences aspontaneousrecoveryfrom the arthritis in her hands.
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Whetherspontaneousrecoveryoccurs or not, treatment must begin immediately after the stroke.
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In this phenomenon, the decrease in responding that followsspontaneousrecoverybecomes more rapid with each test ofspontaneousrecovery.
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Another relation of drugs tospontaneousrecoveryis the incidences regarding relapse.
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The amygdala leads to the caudate nucleus in the neocortex of the basal ganglia, so the fear response can also be triggered viaspontaneousrecovery.
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Potentiation of habituation is observed when tests ofspontaneousrecoveryare given repeatedly.
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More recently stimulus specificity and frequency-dependentspontaneousrecoveryhave been identified as experimental evidence for the habituation process.
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Most patients do not receive therapy because of the highspontaneousrecoveryrate.
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