analepsis
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- In medicine: Recovery of strength after disease.
- A kind of sympathetic epilepsy from gastric disturbance. Also called analepsia and analepsy.
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- New Latin, from Greek
ἀνάληψις , a taking up, recovery, fromἀναλαμβάνειν , take up, get back, recover one's breath: see analemma.