Crossword clues for illness
illness
- Hypochondriac's preoccupation
- Absence justification
- It may leave you weak in the knees
- It might give you a headache
- Impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
- Health problem
- Susan Sontag's "_____ as Metaphor"
- Malady
- A cause of absenteeism
- One cause of absence
- Complaint: Hoskins will regularly incense society
- One litre fewer, round middle of evening — it makes me sick
- Breathes over large lens - turned cold?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
illness
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a childhood illness/disease
▪ measles and other common childhood illnesses
a devastating disease/illness
▪ Cheaper medicines are needed to fight Aids and other devastating diseases.
a serious injury/illness
▪ The driver was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
a severe injury/illness
▪ She had suffered severe head injuries.
fatal accident/illness/injury etc
▪ a fatal climbing accident
▪ If it is not treated correctly, the condition can prove fatal be fatal.
incurable disease/illness/condition
▪ She has a rare, incurable disease.
long illness
▪ She’s recovering from a long illness.
mental illness
▪ The centre provides help for people suffering from mental illness.
minor injury/illness/operation etc (=one that is not very serious or dangerous)
▪ He escaped with only minor injuries.
psychosomatic illness/symptoms/disorder etc
▪ Children are just as susceptible to psychosomatic conditions as adults.
the stigma of alcoholism/mental illness etc
▪ The stigma of alcoholism makes it difficult to treat.
waterborne disease/illness etc
▪ waterborne diseases such as cholera
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
acute
▪ However, unless an accident or acute illness was associated with onset, memory problems are likely to confuse the result.
▪ No answers could mitigate the suffering of victims as encompassed by the poliovirus as she was in the acute stages of illness.
▪ Phenothiazine treatment will be required for the patient with an acute schizophrenic illness.
▪ Young physicians, trained in medical school according to an acute illness model, found Carville an unusual place.
▪ The oral intake of complex carbohydrates is often restricted in patients with an acute diarrhoeal illness.
▪ Let us look at an example of acute illness that would naturally resolve in time.
▪ If you have built up some experience using the remedies then you will find the 30 an excellent potency for acute illness.
▪ The more vigorous and acute the illness is the quicker things change.
chronic
▪ Such elders may have given positive meaning to experiences of anxiety, poverty, chronic illness, multiple losses and death.
▪ You can need long-term care because of a disabling accident or a chronic illness.
▪ Older people can quickly become dispirited and depressed by chronic illness.
▪ Difficulty adapting to a chronic illness 2.
▪ They must remember that anorexia nervosa is often a chronic illness.
▪ Marijuana is said to alleviate painful side effects of treatment for some chronic illnesses.
▪ The annual report of the General Household Survey provides information on the distribution of chronic illness by socio-economic group.
▪ Healthy people can contract necrotizing fasciitis, but people with chronic illnesses or open wounds are more susceptible.
depressive
▪ A massive 3,324, working days were lost because of depressive illnesses between and in Northern Ireland alone.
▪ Many young people are struggling with a depressive illness that requires medical treatment.
▪ He said Spanswick's wife had left him and he was suffering from a depressive illness.
▪ Defining rigorously what constitutes a clinically significant depressive illness is problematic, regardless of the age range under consideration.
▪ Many are suffering from severe depressive illnesses, often with persecutory ideas or delusions.
▪ Some examples of the kinds of events and difficulties which provoked depressive illnesses in the sample are given in the Appendix.
▪ While a number of depressive illnesses treated by psychiatrists seem to have no link with environmental stress, many more do.
▪ They did not have a higher rate of manic depressive illness or anxiety neurosis.
fatal
▪ A third illustration is asbestos manufacture, which is implicated in fatal illness amongst employees and others.
▪ It is standard medical practice here not to tell the patient about potentially fatal illnesses, especially cancer.
▪ It also causes a fatal Aids-like illness in some species of monkey.
▪ It was while he was besieging that town that the king contracted a fatal illness.
▪ The doctor missed his other, fatal, illness.
long
▪ Occasionally a person will suffer from a long and unpleasant illness like glandular fever, but this is rare.
▪ The patient described by Boustany etal had a cytochrome c oxidase deficiency and a long illness before she eventually died of peritonitis.
▪ In middle age he has experienced a breakdown, an identity crisis, which followed a long illness and an operation.
▪ I have the same new-worldliness of some one who emerges to sunlight after a long illness in a darkened room.
▪ Next home was David Lodge in 27 mins. 23 which was a promising effort following a long lay-off due to illness.
▪ Anorexia Nervosa is a long term illness and regular follow-up appointments are necessary.
▪ She felt like a convalescent after a long and dangerous illness, her strength returning, her enthusiasm for life rekindled.
major
▪ Regions ought to be looking to the future and planning the replacement of major mental illness hospitals.
▪ The experience of companies using case management for major illnesses confirms his view.
▪ Aromatherapy, as it is more usually practised, is about prevention of major illness and the symptomatic treatment of minor ailments.
▪ Soon, Michael would be diagnosed with schizophrenia, the most chronic and disabling of the major mental illnesses.
mental
▪ Today madness is called mental illness.
▪ Popular magazines now broach the subject of mental illness, while the government is encouraging research into mental health.
▪ Clinical and counselling psychologists do not deal only with mental illness.
▪ A 35-year-old lawyer faces financial ruin resulting from a serious mental illness.
▪ Patients with mental illness are particularly vulnerable.
▪ Stephenson, it was soon discovered, was suffering from mental illness.
▪ He had a history of mental illness.
minor
▪ Such research would be helped by the development of valid, reliable instruments to measure quality of life in common minor illnesses.
▪ By fall the disease, first thought a minor illness, was an epidemic.
▪ Absenteeism, recurrent minor illnesses, accidents at home and at work and disturbed relationships with colleagues are all commonplace.
▪ There are many people who simply can not afford to run to the doctor every time they have a minor illness.
other
▪ Pegged out: dental problems may be a symptom of other illness in the body, above.
▪ Headache may be on its own or the forerunner of other complaints; it accompanies almost all other illnesses.
▪ Few other paediatric illnesses are as gratifying to diagnose and as uniformly responsive to treatment.
▪ They know that other unhappy things can happen to people like road accidents or other illnesses.
▪ It wasn't like any other sickening or illness she had known.
▪ The cost of myocardial infarction and other cardiac illness is high and is in part the result of vocational disability.
▪ You could be at risk of heart disease or other stress-related illness.
▪ Connections have been made with, among other illnesses, skin rashes, asthma, heart disease, backache and cancer.
physical
▪ The medical staff would like to know if you suffer from any physical disability or illness such as asthma, diabetes or epilepsy.
▪ Examples of such harm could include physical or mental illness or loss of salary.
▪ They need the same support and information they would get in a case of physical illness.
▪ Drinking is seen as leading to a physical and psychological illness.
▪ Such feelings almost inevitably lead to physical illness.
▪ The mind and emotions are involved as well as the body and any physical symptoms of illness that may be present.
▪ High achievers report less physical illness and spend less time discussing their ailments.
▪ There was then, as there still is today, some evidence of significant mental and physical illness among women in prison.
psychiatric
▪ Suicide Although suicide is not, in itself, a psychiatric illness it may be taken as suggestive of impaired mental health.
▪ But why does that prove that the lousy conduct is a psychiatric illness?
▪ The differential diagnosis includes both primary psychiatric illness and a wide range of organic acute brain syndromes, including substance abuse.
▪ The third group includes patients who mutilate themselves, usually in the context of a serious psychiatric illness.
▪ Behaviour in patients with complex partial seizures is usually more repetitive and stereotyped than in psychiatric illness.
▪ It results from the attempt to provide relief from psychiatric illnesses and has only recently begun to be recognised.
psychosomatic
▪ On the other hand, if we are under-stressed we will become lethargic and tired and psychosomatic illnesses could occur.
▪ Here is the basic pattern Of the engram which will contain the chronic psychosomatic illness in any patient.
▪ The full range of symptoms attributed to psychosomatic illness are shown in Table 1.
respiratory
▪ The decision follows years of anxiety about the high levels of respiratory illnesses in the area.
▪ Effects have included widespread respiratory illnesses and the closure of airports due to poor visibility.
▪ The association between length of gestation and respiratory illness was greatest for symptoms of wheeze most days.
▪ About 55 percent of schoolchildren suffer health problems; respiratory illnesses are particularly prevalent.
▪ Immaturity seems to play an important part in the subsequent development of respiratory illness in childhood.
serious
▪ Following a serious illness in 1744 she came to regard herself as sinful.
▪ This is why the germs seldom cause serious illnesses.
▪ She had had no serious illnesses in the past and had never been in hospital.
▪ Therefore, the detection of respiratory alkalosis may represent an important diagnostic clue to more serious illness.
▪ It can cope with a cold, fight off a serious illness and with time, even mend a broken bone.
▪ But no complaints: up to now, I have never had a serious illness.
▪ That is something that needs to be said, as he is very popular and has just recovered from a serious illness.
▪ Lengths of stay are being cut dramatically for just about every serious medical illness and surgical procedure.
severe
▪ The designer's close encounter of severe illness had a profound influence on his scheme.
▪ When it erupts at the wrong moment, it can signal severe illness.
▪ People whose disabilities begin with severe illness or injury find themselves in medical hands whether they like it or not.
▪ Soon thereafter Latimer falls into a severe illness and, after a time of unconsciousness, he wakes.
▪ The most likely way in which a booking contract may be frustrated is through severe illness on the part of the guest.
▪ The denial rate is high among people with severe mental illnesses.
▪ And people suffering from a severe injury or illness usually need to regain weight.
▪ Many are suffering from severe depressive illnesses, often with persecutory ideas or delusions.
short
▪ After a short illness in 1909 she died.
▪ She died 16 January 1918 in Sidmouth, after a short illness.
▪ This confinement apparently affected his health and, after a short illness, he died suddenly at the museum 28 May 1917.
▪ He died at his family's Wiltshire home after a short illness.
▪ He died, unexpectedly, after a short illness aged only 39 whilst staying at the Phoenix Hotel in Taunton.
▪ He died after a very short and sudden illness in June 1986.
▪ He died in Feltham, Middlesex, 21 August 1869 after a short illness.
▪ His service was itself cut short by illness.
terminal
▪ Charles took on Diana's mantle speaking on terminal illness, while she prepared to tread the world stage.
▪ Her terrible, inexplicable terminal illness.
▪ How would you feel, say, if you had an incurable disease, or a terminal illness?
▪ Being somewhat overweight is not a serious health problem, and obesity is not a terminal illness.
▪ Ideally, some one with a terminal illness should at least have the right to work part-time as long as they are able.
▪ We feel like a patient with a possible terminal illness that no one will tell the results of the tests.
▪ At present, patients are prevented from receiving the benefit for the first six months of a terminal illness.
▪ Patient E16 had only been in hospital once, three years before his terminal illness.
■ VERB
cause
▪ Stress and tension are implicated in causing illness, and I believe that much modern health propaganda simply adds to that problem.
▪ This is why the germs seldom cause serious illnesses.
▪ In other words, poverty can cause illness directly and indirectly, and vice-versa.
▪ Tainted meat and poultry cause thousands of illnesses and hundreds of deaths each year.
▪ Even the nursery's pet rabbit is being tested as a possible carrier of the organism that causes the illness.
▪ Often this blocks a pulmonary artery, causing serious illness or death.
▪ Diverse ways of coping with the stress caused by illness will be identified and any links with self-esteem investigated.
▪ Primary teachers who chat to a class depleted by flu and colds about what causes such illnesses are actually covering the curriculum.
cope
▪ Now Peter's family can get on with looking after him and coping with his illness without worrying about losing their home.
▪ Relatives have to cope with mental illness that so often changes the personality of their loved one.
▪ Health professionals, particularly doctors, find particular difficulty in coping with a disabling illness in adult life.
diagnose
▪ In claiming to diagnose and treat this illness doctors can do more harm than good.
▪ Two years after her second child was born her husband was diagnosed with a terminal illness.
▪ All attempts by my own doctor and the company doctor to diagnose my illness failed.
▪ Brave Gail Devers was suffering from Graves Disease but it took doctors two years to diagnose the crippling thyroid illness.
die
▪ The water in Haworth was bad, so many children died from illness.
▪ I was recently at the funeral of a friend, who had died after a prolonged illness from cancer.
▪ Mr Shrigley said two of the women had died from the serious illnesses for which they had been admitted to the hospital.
▪ All this had changed when she was thirteen and her five-year-old sister had died of a sudden illness.
▪ Then their five year old daughter Sarah tragically died after contracting the illness.
▪ Eight have had heart conditions and two have died of illness while in office.
▪ I also heard that my parents both died of an illness only a year after their wedding.
prevent
▪ They were much more concerned about efforts to prevent illness, and to improve the quality of life of people incurably ill.
▪ With no accountability for the consequences of their marketing, these industries have no incentive to prevent costly illness.
▪ They promote health and help prevent illness in the first place.
recover
▪ And in our psychiatric rehabilitation centres for men and women of all ages recovering from mental illness.
▪ So they recover faster from illnesses.
▪ However, the long-term outlook for reproductive function is poor in patients who conceive before they have fully recovered from their illness.
▪ That is something that needs to be said, as he is very popular and has just recovered from a serious illness.
▪ He had never completely recovered from the serious illness he had had when he first arrived.
▪ All assumed then and indeed until two days ago that Chapman was recovering from his illness.
▪ These may be helpful when recovering from an illness or if you fear your normal diet is lacking.
▪ Shah Jehan had now recovered from his illness and was able to move to Agra and join in the victory celebrations.
relate
▪ Surprise, surprise, 60-70 % of the population suffers some form of related illnesses from this toxic cocktail environment.
▪ Massery said about $ 3 million comes from the estates of people who died from smoking-#related illnesses.
▪ About 3,400,000 people, including 1,260,000 children, are suffering from fallout-#related illnesses.
▪ Depression in the twilight years is usually related to chronic illness, which often can have a major impact on lifestyle.
▪ About 50,000 pensioners die every year due to cold-#related illnesses and many others need hospital treatment.
▪ Each new ache or pain is not necessarily related to the illness.
▪ The findings come when, looking worldwide, deaths from tobacco related illnesses are increasing.
suffer
▪ In the closing years of his life he suffered serious illness.
▪ She has never gone hungry, suffered horrible illness or seen some one she loves die.
▪ Almost certainly if you were suffering from such an illness you would have other symptoms to indicate that you were unwell.
▪ He suffered several illnesses while president, although he continued to function adequately.
▪ He said Spanswick's wife had left him and he was suffering from a depressive illness.
▪ There is also no dispute that du Pont suffers from mental illness, as even the prosecution has acknowledged.
▪ Read in studio More than eighty staff at a supermarket have been sent home suffering from a mystery illness.
▪ Many are suffering from severe depressive illnesses, often with persecutory ideas or delusions.
treat
▪ A qualified nurse is available to treat injuries and general illnesses and to advise on general health matters.
▪ But his countrymen did not treat his illness as a joke.
▪ The legislation would require corporate health plans to treat mental illnesses the same as physical ailments.
▪ Last year 110,000 people died and 254,000 were treated for smoking related illnesses, taking up 9,473 hospital beds every day.
▪ Think about psychological counseling, too, to help separate the pain from the fear response to the pain. Treat illness.
▪ In treating acute illnesses there are only two outcomes to giving the wrong low potency remedy.
▪ The lawsuit seeks reimbursement for costs of treating people with tobacco-related illnesses.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
plead ignorance/illness/insanity etc
▪ As to his reference to rugby league, I plead ignorance and will not interfere with private griefs.
▪ Galileo pleaded ignorance of any such document and promised to produce that signed by Bellarrnine in 1616.
▪ He attempted to plead insanity, but did it so effectively that they concluded he must be sane.
▪ In Seville he had often pleaded ignorance over some of the expressions she used.
▪ The next day, she stayed home from work, something she rarely did, pleading illness.
wasting disease/illness
▪ A preacher, victim of a wasting illness, would refer in the pulpit to his forthcoming demise without shocking his congregation.
▪ Children have been born deformed and there are fears of genetic defects; many adults are suffering from wasting diseases.
▪ She will host the surprise get-together tomorrow as a thank you to the victims of a fatal muscle wasting disease.
▪ There is not much point in weighing less but looking as if you are suffering from some wasting disease.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ 80% of patients now recover completely from this illness and are able to lead perfectly normal lives.
▪ Doctors believe he may have contracted the illness while he was in Africa.
▪ mental illness
▪ Minor illnesses such as colds are usually best left to get better by themselves.
▪ Most childhood illnesses can now be easily prevented.
▪ People are often too embarrassed to admit that they have suffered from any form of mental illness.
▪ She died yesterday after a long illness.
▪ Should doctors always tell patients that they have terminal illnesses such as cancer?
▪ You are allowed time off work only in cases of serious illness or bereavement.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ About 30 percent of people with a mental illness also are drug or alcohol abusers, the audit said.
▪ Experiments involve a spurious association between the novel food and the illness which is usually induced chemically or by X-rays.
▪ He himself was thin and pale from illness, and was lying on the bed, wrapped in an old coat.
▪ His preparation to be a deacon was disturbed by a death and by mental illness.
▪ Most illnesses and infections are easier to treat if they are diagnosed early.
▪ Our hospitals would be empty if we tried to discriminate between self-induced or even partially self-induced illnesses, and naturally developed diseases.
▪ People whose disabilities begin with severe illness or injury find themselves in medical hands whether they like it or not.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Illness
Illness \Ill"ness\, n. [From Ill.]
The condition of being ill, evil, or bad; badness; unfavorableness. [Obs.] ``The illness of the weather.''
--Locke.Disease; indisposition; malady; disorder of health; sickness; as, a short or a severe illness.
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Wrong moral conduct; wickedness.
--Shak.Syn: Malady; disease; indisposition; ailment.
Usage: Illness, Sickness. Within the present century, there has been a tendency in England to use illness in the sense of a continuous disease, disorder of health, or sickness, and to confine sickness more especially to a sense of nausea, or ``sickness of the stomach.''
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
illness
"disease, sickness," 1680s, from ill + -ness. Earlier it meant "bad moral quality" (c.1500).
Wiktionary
illness
n. 1 (context countable English) An instance of a disease or poor health. 2 (context uncountable English) A state of bad health or disease.
WordNet
illness
n. impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism [syn: unwellness, malady, sickness] [ant: health, health]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "illness".
A month before the wedding, during a spell of several weeks when they were unable to see one another because of illness, Adams wrote to her: Oh, my dear girl, I thank heaven that another fortnight will restore you to me--after so long a separation.
Interestingly enough, when adrenochrome is injected into normal human subjects, temporary psychotic states resembling those of mental illness are produced.
Stimpson, it was thought that a proven warehouseman would be more helpful than a third alieni st Even with the most rigorous schedule and the briefest of consultations, it was clear to Thomas that he would not be able to follow the course of six hundred illnesses, let alone devote to them the long-term observation they required.
The Sons of Annam customarily drank from the Well of Health before departing Bleak Palace, since the magical waters kept the mind clear and the body free of illness.
We are seeing the rise of illness that is associated with psychological stress and with the autoimmune system.
AIDS, cancer, allergies, asthma, candida albicans, lowered resistance to infection and other illnesses are related to the functioning of the autoimmune system.
Apparently it was only when he was immobilised by a terrible fit in Barnaul, in February 1857, a month after marrying Mariya Dmitriyevna Isayeva, that he took medical advice and realised the full extent of his illness.
When a musher begins a rest cycle, he boils water, feeds his dogs, removes their booties, and checks each dog for injury or illness.
He had blamed the breakbone fever for his shattered memories, but what if his illness was not the cause?
Ornish plan, particularly if you need to lose a great deal of weight or if you have a chronic illness like cardiovascular disease.
To some Dales and some people, it brought but a few days of more or less mild illness.
By 1880, owing to warfare and deculturation as well as illness, Native numbers had dropped to 250,000, a decline of 98 percent.
John to put on the identical goggles which his care had provided for Denbigh in his illness.
International organizations and aid agencies have consistently found that diarrheal and respiratory illnesses were the biggest killers in Iraq.
At the start of our war and subsequent boycott against Iraq, a few hundred children younger than five were killed each month by respiratory infections, malnutrition, and diarrheal illnesses.