analepsis

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  1. In medicine: Recovery of strength after disease.
  2. A kind of sympathetic epilepsy from gastric disturbance. Also called analepsia and analepsy.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek ἀνάληψις, a taking up, recovery, from ἀναλαμβάνειν, take up, get back, recover one's breath: see analemma.
 

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