The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chronic \Chron"ic\, a. [L. chronicus, Gr. ? concerning time, from ? time: cf. F. chronique.]
Relating to time; according to time.
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Continuing for a long time; lingering; habitual.
Chronic disease, one which is inveterate, of long continuance, or progresses slowly, in distinction from an acute disease, which speedly terminates.
Usage examples of "chronic disease".
Except for her daily morning therapy in her beanbag chair, it was almost as if she were not afflicted by a chronic disease.
It is specially useful in states of exhaustion from chronic disease and in all cases of general debility, weakness of the digestive organs and want of appetite.
All of the teeth were missing from her left lower jaw, which indicates she seemed to have lived a life of chronic disease and poverty as did the other victims.
The second most impressive dealt with the number of deaths of people with the same symptoms associated with various chronic disease like diabetes, cancer, kidney problems, rheumatoid arthritis, and liver ailments.
It turns out that the King is suffering from a lingering, chronic disease and that cure is despaired of.
One medieval French king who did suffer from a lingering, chronic disease was Charles VI (see page II-464), who reigned from 1380 to 1422 and was mentally ill most of the time.
I am inclined to suspect a prurient Distemper of the Bladder, rather than Stone or chronic Disease of the inward male parts, as the complaint is recurrent, but not of long standing on any occasion of its evidence-two weeks being the average duration of each attack and accompanied by Burning in the male Organ.
You mean, besides having a life-threatening, eventually-crippling, chronic disease?
The research was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and was designed to learn the effects of chronic disease upon the psychological adjustment of children.
You'll finally be admitting that you have a chronic disease and you will have it for the rest of your life.
Healers were desperately needed, as Lenardo found chronic disease everywhere.
With the increase of the chronic disease, which had thus, apparently, taken too sure hold upon her constitution to be eradicated by human means, I could not fail to observe a similar increase in the nervous irritation of her temperament, and in her excitability by trivial causes of fear.
I'm infected by a chronic disease called a sense of responsibility.