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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sickness
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
decompression sickness
insure (sth/sb) against loss/damage/theft/sickness etc
▪ It is wise to insure your property against storm damage.
morning sickness
motion sickness
radiation sickness
sickness benefit
sleeping sickness
travel sickness
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chronic
▪ Let us turn now to the relationship between the chronic sickness and mortality rates.
▪ Worst of all was the high incidence of epidemics, chronic sickness, and malnutrition.
■ NOUN
absence
▪ These risk factors accounted for about one third of the grade differences in sickness absence.
▪ Conclusion - Large grade differences in sickness absence parallel socioeconomic differences in morbidity and mortality found in other studies.
▪ The relation between alcohol consumption and sickness absence will be reported elsewhere.
▪ One estimate puts the cost in terms of sickness absence alone at over £700 million a year.
▪ For women, there was no clear relation between alcohol consumption and sickness absence.
▪ Psychosocial factors at work and outside work also predicted rates of sickness absence.
▪ We actively monitor sickness absence levels and record the amount of time that people are unable to come to work.
allowance
▪ During the waiting days your pay will consist of the sickness allowance.
▪ In both cases your gross pay will be as normal, unless you have exhausted the full sickness allowance.
altitude
▪ Theroux had a deep gash on his face, neckache, altitude sickness and a damaged wrist.
▪ Dehydration is one of the keys to altitude sickness.
▪ I am light-headed, perhaps from a mild attack of altitude sickness.
▪ Last summer altitude sickness ruined one Sierra trip of mine and half-ruined another.
▪ An expert on altitude sickness says he hasn't got long to live.
benefit
▪ Insured workers who are off sick are entitled to draw sickness benefit.
▪ This fund was set up during the 1880s as a means of providing sickness benefit for employees.
▪ Spending cuts would especially affect public administration and, within the social welfare budget, the level of payments on sickness benefit.
▪ Temporary appropriations for paying civil servants' wages and unemployment and sickness benefits will have run out by then.
▪ The most novel approach related to sickness benefit.
▪ It was decided that state sickness benefit was to be taxed by its abolition!
▪ From April 1983, the first eight weeks of sickness benefit were to be met by the employer.
▪ Some items of expenditure like supplementary benefit or sickness benefit are demand-led commitments.
decompression
▪ For decompression sickness, your dive history is available in graphic detail for hyperbaric specialists to consult.
morning
▪ No morning sickness, no backache, no obscure cravings.
▪ One vomiting spell-hangover. Morning sickness chain.
▪ The bulimia, the morning sickness, her collapsing marriage and her jealousy of Camilla conspired to make her life intolerable.
▪ No mere morning sickness this, but gripping, round-the-clock, horrible nausea.
▪ Thalidomide, the drug prescribed in the Fifties for morning sickness, is the most infamous example.
▪ Well, as Faye told you over lunch, she feels that her morning sickness is beginning to taper off.
motion
▪ They were useful for treating allergic disorders and also as sedatives and remedies for motion sickness.
▪ By manipulating how the virtual scene moves with your body movements, we may be able to help people with motion sickness.
▪ We are investigating the possibility that motion sickness may be a factor in the unpleasantness of transportation.
▪ They were able to read without the usual motion sickness they frequently get riding in a car.
▪ In fact, some players report motion sickness.
mountain
▪ Passang watched for symptoms of mountain sickness.
▪ Two of their members were suffering from mountain sickness and their high-altitude porters had failed to arrive.
▪ Altitude or mountain sickness attacks the lungs or brain and can cause seizures or comas.
radiation
▪ Another 237 people were treated for radiation sickness, some of whom needed bone-marrow transplants to restore their white blood-cell count.
▪ For some, the visit is a welcome break from medical treatment they're receiving for radiation sickness.
▪ Many were orphaned by the disaster, others still suffer radiation sickness.
rate
▪ The sickness rate is well up and is a matter of considerable concern.
▪ So regional death rates do not predict regional self-reported sickness rates very well.
▪ Furthermore, since the record is generated on discharge, complications relating to length of stay will disturb calculated sickness rates.
travel
▪ Travel Bands wrist bands to prevent travel sickness, £6.50.
▪ Scopolamine is used for travel sickness.
▪ Recovery from the effects of travel sickness is very rapid.
■ VERB
cause
▪ Around the world, many cultures believe that any harm done to a dolphin may cause ill-fortune or sickness.
▪ Trypanosomes, which cause sleeping sickness, keep changing their keys by switching on one gene after another.
▪ HepA can cause sickness, diarrhoea, jaundice and, in the worst case, liver failure.
suffer
▪ They suffered severed sickness and diarrhoea.
▪ People in Wigtown suffered diarrhoea, sickness and mouth ulcers.
▪ Allitt had written in nursing notes that Liam had suffered violent sickness and diarrhoea.
▪ Many were orphaned by the disaster, others still suffer radiation sickness.
▪ They may suffer sickness, vomiting or acute pain, but they do not die.
▪ Two of their members were suffering from mountain sickness and their high-altitude porters had failed to arrive.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bout of depression/flu/sickness etc
▪ Occasionally we all suffer from influenza or a bout of sickness, which naturally results in a drop in weight.
▪ Pablo Fernandez was suddenly stricken by a bout of flu.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Many veterans claim the army has not compensated them for war-related sicknesses.
▪ Several crew members had to leave due to sickness and exhaustion.
▪ They said that the murders were a sign of a new, terrible sickness in our society.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And, you can usually arrange sickness or redundancy benefit to cover your monthly repayments, for a small premium each month.
▪ But it was not sickness, not unpleasant.
▪ In the meantime the steady trickle of deaths from wounds and sickness continued.
▪ It was possible to examine sickness absence within an organisation with a single sickness absence policy.
▪ Last summer altitude sickness ruined one Sierra trip of mine and half-ruined another.
▪ Make sure you have arranged mortgage Protection Cover and, if possible, insure yourself against sickness, redundancy or accident.
▪ One estimate puts the cost in terms of sickness absence alone at over £700 million a year.
▪ The fields there are a source of a lot of sickness, particularly with the pollution.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sickness

Sickness \Sick"ness\, n. [AS. se['o]cness.]

  1. The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady.

    I do lament the sickness of the king.
    --Shak.

    Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms.
    --Pope.

  2. Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.

    Syn: Illness; disease; malady. See Illness.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sickness

Old English seocnes "sickness, disease; a disease;" see sick (adj.) and -ness.

Wiktionary
sickness

n. 1 The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady. 2 nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.

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WordNet
sickness

  1. n. impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism [syn: illness, unwellness, malady] [ant: health, health]

  2. the state that precedes vomiting [syn: nausea]

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Wikipedia
Sickness

Sickness may refer to:

  • Disease
  • Nausea
  • Sickness behavior

In popular culture:

  • The Sickness, an album by Disturbed
  • The Sickness (Animorphs), a book in the Animorphs series
  • Corey Taylor, nicknamed "The Sickness", American heavy metal musician
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Usage examples of "sickness".

The fumes given off by acetone, benzine, xylene, and formaldehyde are toxic and may cause sickness.

He had been with Mwynwen frequently, either in his own chambers or her house, resting and leaching out of his body the subliminal aches and slight sickness that extended exposure to iron caused .

If he meant to survive in Alb, and he did, then he must suppress the rage, the shock, and the sickness that was moving in his belly.

Losses by the sword, by sickness, and by privation, amounting to about 15,000 men since the battle of Busaco, at length induced Massena, on the 15th of November, to make a retrograde movement.

Ysabel the doctor employs an ingenious apparatus for discovering the cause of sickness and ascertaining its cure.

It had not cured them, but an altogether embarrassing number of those darkies had gone blind, stone blind, from Atoxyl before they had had time to die from sleeping sickness.

Does not the Baas remember how we were told at the Black Kloof that those who dared to leave the Land of Heu-Heu were always smitten with some sickness and died?

Well, Baas, Issicore got out all right and left the sickness behind him, I expect because the priests did not know that he was going.

All the dull heaviness of sickness was gone for the moment, and King Henry was the King Henry of ten years ago as he rolled his eyes balefully from one to another of the courtiers who stood silently around.

Research has proved that the diet of the masses--mainly polished rice--is entirely inadequate to human needs, and that beriberi, a fatal sickness due to insufficient nourishment, is steadily increasing in the Islands.

Except where poverty or sickness prevails, the winter evenings among the mountains have something bewitching about them.

Malaria, malnutrition, river blindness, sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis, yaws, bilharzia, and rift valley fever were everywhere in retreat under the benign rule of the Pan-African Federation.

Then let him read biography and note the paralyzing effect upon the biographees of sickness and half sickness and three quarter wellness.

I heard it from a birdeen that there was neither cark nor care, sickness nor sorrow, mishap nor misfortune on them till the hour of their death, and may the same be with me, and with us all !

I were to be there then, I would not be here now--but I heard it from a birdeen that there was neither cark nor care, sickness nor sorrow, mishap nor misfortune on them till the hour of their death, and may the same be with me, and with us all!