Prolonged

Usage examples of chronic.

A sort of chronic warfare of aggression and reprisal, closely akin to piracy, was carried on at intervals in Acadian waters by French private armed vessels on one hand, and New England private armed vessels on the other.

The diseases known as menorrhagia, dysmenorrhoea, leucorrhoea, amenorrhoea, abortions, prolapsus, chronic inflammations and ulcerations of the womb, with a yet greater variety of sympathetic nervous disorders, are some of the distressing forms of these derangements.

Ornish plan, particularly if you need to lose a great deal of weight or if you have a chronic illness like cardiovascular disease.

It is efficient in fevers, and for breaking up colds, and is a very valuable, remedial agent in most chronic diseases, assisting in removing causes which depress the bodily functions.

In prescribing this drug, physicians are warned that Ritalin is contraindicated for patients with psychological problems such as depression, psychosis, or chronic fatigue.

The diagnosis was dysthymic disorder, a chronic form of low-grade depression.

We believe that we are placing a conservative estimate upon the remedial value of these animal juices, or extracts, when we say that they are destined to fill an important place in the curative resources of the specialist in chronic diseases.

In acute situations, STR affects the way scar tissue is formed, and in chronic conditions STR breaks up the fibrotic and adhered mass of scar tissue to quickly allow the muscle to return to its natural resting length.

Neurologists admit that epilepsy may sometimes be linked to a schizoid process - this might have been the case with Van Gogh - but they define it as a chronic disorder, a continual tendency to fits resulting from an excessive discharge of cerebral neurones, whatever clinical or paraclinical symptoms happen to be associated with it.

In chronic glomerulonephritis, for example, a much clearer insight will be needed into the events leading to the destruction of glomeruli by the immunologic reactants that now appear to govern this disease, before one will know how to intervene intelligently to prevent the process, or turn it around.

The Naples doctors treated me probably wrongly, since chronic gonorrhoea followed the acute attack.

A few minutes of study gave him a depressingly easy working diagnosis: Donny was suffering from chronic granulomatous disease.

Ten months in power, Andropov, at 69, was suffering from chronic kidney disease and kept alive by regular sessions of hemodialysis that filtered noxious waste out of his blood stream.

Do you know what the scientific community would say if I told them that I discovered the cure for all cancers and AIDS and every chronic immunological disorder known to mankind in one fell swoop?

General Jourge Videla, head of the army, proclaimed a new military junta to oust Isabelita Peron, citing the chronic inflation and massive unemployment as the reason for their intervention.