rehabilitant

See also: réhabilitant

English

Etymology

rehabilitate +‎ -ant

Noun

rehabilitant (plural rehabilitants)

1. One who is being or has been rehabilitated.
   • 1973, James F. Garrett, Edna Simon Levine, Rehabilitation Practices with the Physically Disabled, page 20:

     The rehabilitator and the rehabilitant assess each other.

   • 2003, Carolyn L. Vash, Nancy M. Crewe, Psychology of Disability, →ISBN, page 256:

     This does happen for some; for example, peer counseling experience gained as an advanced rehabilitant working with more recently admitted clients/patients has been a stepping stone toward professional training for a number of people.

   • 2010, Serge A. Wich, S Suci Utami Atmoko, Tatang Mitra Setia, Orangutans: Geographic Variation in Behavioral Ecology and Conservation, →ISBN:

     Considering rehabilitant variants that are modifications of provisional wild innovations, geographic prevalence was wider in wild orangutans for 7 entries, roughly equal for 16 entries, and wider in rehabilitants for 20 entries.

   • 2011, Robert W. Shumaker, Kristina R. Walkup, Benjamin B. Beck, Animal Tool Behavior: The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals, →ISBN:

     Rijksen (1978) observed a rehabilitant aggressively Jabbing with a long stick at a caged clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa).

Adjective

rehabilitant (comparative more rehabilitant, superlative most rehabilitant)

1. Undergoing or pertaining to rehabilitation.
   • 1961, Dissertation Abstracts - Volume 21, Issue 4, page 2980:

     There are no differences, on any of the twenty factors studied, between the rehabilitant and non-rehabilitant groups.

   • 2007, Joanna Blake, Routes to Child Language: Evolutionary and Developmental Precursors, →ISBN:

     However, some evidence exists on spatial memory in both wild and captive apes and on delayed imitation in rehabilitant apes.

   • 2011, Doug Elliott, Leanne Aitken, Wendy Chaboyer, ACCCN's Critical Care Nursing, →ISBN, page 468:

     Recently sensory involvement in relation to pain has been studied asserting the clinical observation of pain ranging from mild to severe in the acute and rehabilitant phases.

Catalan

Verb

rehabilitant

1. gerund of rehabilitar

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French réhabilitant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɛ.xa.biˈli.tant/
• Rhymes: -itant
• Syllabification: re‧ha‧bi‧li‧tant

Noun

rehabilitant m pers (female equivalent rehabilitantka)

1. (education, medicine) rehabilitator

Declension

Declension of rehabilitant

	singular	plural
nominative	rehabilitant	rehabilitanci/rehabilitanty (deprecative)
genitive	rehabilitanta	rehabilitantów
dative	rehabilitantowi	rehabilitantom
accusative	rehabilitanta	rehabilitantów
instrumental	rehabilitantem	rehabilitantami
locative	rehabilitancie	rehabilitantach
vocative	rehabilitancie	rehabilitanci

Related terms

adjective

• rehabilitacyjny

 

nouns

• rehabilitacja
• rehabilitator

 

verbs

• rehabilitować
• zrehabilitować

 

Further reading

• rehabilitant in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• rehabilitant in Polish dictionaries at PWN