HEALING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does healing mean? 

• HEALING (noun)
  The noun HEALING has 1 sense:

1. the natural process by which the body repairs itself

  Familiarity information: HEALING used as a noun is very rare.

• HEALING (adjective)
  The adjective HEALING has 1 sense:

1. tending to cure or restore to health

  Familiarity information: HEALING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEALING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The natural process by which the body repairs itself

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("healing" is a kind of...):

activity; bodily function; bodily process; body process (an organic process that takes place in the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "healing"):

convalescence; recovery; recuperation (gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury)

conglutination; union (healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones)

Derivation:

heal (get healthy again)

heal (heal or recover)

• HEALING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tending to cure or restore to health

Synonyms:

alterative; curative; healing; remedial; sanative; therapeutic

Context example:

therapeutic diets

Similar:

healthful (conducive to good health of body or mind)

 Context examples 

They laced the hydrogel with hydrating silk proteins that promote healing and regeneration, then added progesterone.

(Scientists Help Frogs to Regenerate Their Limbs with Bioreactor Device, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Therefore, once a clot forms, even for beneficial reasons, it must shrink and disappear after wound healing starts to maintain normal blood flow.

(How And Why Blood Clots Shrink, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Aluminum acetate is used to treat inflammation, itching, and stinging of the infected skin and promotes healing.

(Aluminum Acetate, NCI Thesaurus)

Aluminum lactate is used to treat inflammation, itching, and stinging of the infected skin and promotes healing.

(Aluminum Lactate, NCI Thesaurus)

Eventually, mimicking the processes initiated by the microbiome may allow clinicians to accelerate wound healing and prevent dangerous infections, the researchers note.

(Scientists find microbes on the skin of mice promote tissue healing, immunity, National Institutes of Health)

Over three to four weeks, "it did rescue the fracture healing."

(Protein Discovery Could Help Heal Bones in Diabetics, VOA)

Chronic, non-healing wounds, are usually more alkaline (vs. acidic) than healthy skin.

(New answer to MRSA, other 'superbug' infections: clay minerals?, NSF)

This can trigger the production of chemicals in spinal cord neurons that make pain persist beyond the healing period.

(Opioid Pain Relievers May Prolong Pain, NIH)

Together these processes may accelerate skin healing and tissue repair.

(Amnion-derived Cellular Cytokine Solution, NCI Thesaurus)

CAM may include dietary supplements, megadose vitamins, herbal preparations, special teas, acupuncture, massage therapy, magnet therapy, spiritual healing, and meditation.

(CAM, NCI Dictionary)