rehabilitant

noun

1. One who is being or has been rehabilitated.

   “The rehabilitator and the rehabilitant assess each other.”

   “This does happen for some; for example, peer counseling experience gained as an advanced rehabilitant working with more recently admitted clients/patients has been a stepping stone toward professional training for a number of people.”

   “Considering rehabilitant variants that are modifications of provisional wild innovations, geographic prevalence was wider in wild orangutans for 7 entries, roughly equal for 16 entries, and wider in rehabilitants for 20 entries.”

   “Rijksen (1978) observed a rehabilitant aggressively Jabbing with a long stick at a caged clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa).”

adj

1. Undergoing or pertaining to rehabilitation.

   “There are no differences, on any of the twenty factors studied, between the rehabilitant and non-rehabilitant groups.”

   “However, some evidence exists on spatial memory in both wild and captive apes and on delayed imitation in rehabilitant apes.”

   “Recently sensory involvement in relation to pain has been studied asserting the clinical observation of pain ranging from mild to severe in the acute and rehabilitant phases.”