physical ailment

collocation in English

meaningsofphysicalandailment

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physical
adjective
uk
/ˈfɪz.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˈfɪz.ɪ.kəl/
relating to ...
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ailment
noun[C]
uk
/ˈeɪl.mənt/us
/ˈeɪl.mənt/
an ...
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(Definition ofphysicalandailmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Enacted in 1965, it guaranteed every senior citizen governmentsponsored health insurance irrespective of income orphysicalailment.
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What is the effect upon a child to be told that it is suffering from aphysicalailment?
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To suffer from that disease is to suffer from aphysicalailmentand to suffer shame, remorse and regret.
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At least one can say of aphysicalailmentthat it can be seen and it may attract a measure of sympathy for that reason.
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As soon as a procedure is discovered, whereby aphysicalailmentor deficiency can be cured, a new waiting list is created.
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There is no serious mental orphysicalailment.
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It lends itself much less readily to scientific research than, say, aphysicalailment.
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After all, nine out of 10 people who are treated for aphysicalailmentnever go into hospital at all.
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It is very easy for people who live and have to work with it to become callous of any sort of human failing orphysicalailment.
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They are also used in horticultural therapy for rehabilitation of mental and/orphysicalailment.
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People go to a "consulta" because of somephysicalailmentor personal problem affecting their health.
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Women are more likely to be given a diagnosis of psychosomatic nature for aphysicalailmentthan men, despite presenting with similar symptoms.
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But it was actually aphysicalailmentthing.
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It is undoubtedly true that sicknesses of the soul are painful for it just as physical ailments are for the body.
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In this urban community sample, serious physical ailments were increasingly rare across development but contributed substantially to overall levels of adversity for some individuals.
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Information on physical ailments is still regularly checked before an insurance contract is signed.
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Rutter provides numerous examples of complex causality in physical ailments, with environmental factors and context playing a powerful role, interacting with endogenous factors.
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Everything must be generally subordinated in the first place to the medical treatment and the healing of the man's physical ailments or wounds.
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