PHYSICAL REHABILITATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does physical rehabilitation mean? 

• PHYSICAL REHABILITATION (noun)
  The noun PHYSICAL REHABILITATION has 1 sense:

1. providing help for disabled persons; the removal or reduction of disabilities

  Familiarity information: PHYSICAL REHABILITATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHYSICAL REHABILITATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Providing help for disabled persons; the removal or reduction of disabilities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

physical rehabilitation; physical restoration; therapeutic rehabilitation

Hypernyms ("physical rehabilitation" is a kind of...):

rehabilitation (the restoration of someone to a useful place in society)

 Context examples 

Occupational medicine encompasses issues such as industrial hygiene, safety, pollution control, ergonomics, industrial and agricultural toxicology, disability evaluation, physical rehabilitation, industrial psychology and emergency medicine.

(Occupational Medicine, NCI Thesaurus)