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enhanced recovery

noun

Definition of enhanced recovery

: the extraction of oil from a nearly exhausted well by methods more costly and complex than waterflooding alone

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 Scientists still have a ways to go in terms of predicting and enhancing recovery from neurological injuries, Rosenow added. — Michelle Lou, CNN, "Scientists repurposed the EEG to detect brain activity in comatose patients," 27 June 2019

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First Known Use of enhanced recovery

1970, in the meaning defined above

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