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lækna

Lækna is an Icelandic verb meaning to heal, cure, or recover from illness or injury. It is used both in medical contexts to describe the restoration of health and in everyday speech to refer to healing a wound or recovery from sickness. The corresponding noun lækning denotes a cure or the process of healing, and related terms include lækningar (cures) and læknisfræði, the science of healing or medicine. The verb can be used transitively, as in to heal something or someone, or intransitively to describe a person or condition recovering.

Etymology and cognates: The word is of Germanic origin and has cognates in other North Germanic languages,

Usage and relevance: Lækna appears in various phrases and compounds related to health care, treatment, and recovery.

such
as
Swedish
läka.
In
Icelandic,
lækna
belongs
to
a
broad
family
of
health-related
terms
and
appears
frequently
in
medical
and
clinical
prose
as
well
as
in
everyday
conversation.
It
is
part
of
the
core
vocabulary
surrounding
illness,
healing,
and
medical
practice
in
Icelandic,
and
it
interacts
with
related
terms
such
as
meðferð
(treatment)
and
læknisstarf
(medical
profession).