life-threatening illness
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflife-threateningandillness
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life-threatening
adjective
uk/ˈlaɪfˌθret.ən.ɪŋ/us/ˈlaɪfˌθret.ən.ɪŋ/
A life-threatening disease is a very serious one that can ...
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illness
noun
uk/ˈɪl.nəs/us/ˈɪl.nəs/
a disease of the body ...
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(Definition oflife-threateningandillnessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The catalyst for the request was alife-threateningillness.
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Perceived positive and negative effects oflife-threateningillness.
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She is old enough to give a meaningful answer, especially after living on intimate terms with alife-threateningillness.
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Evidence of thelife-threateningillnessis subject to independent medical scrutiny.
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Nevertheless, it may include thoughts of death distinct from the wish to die, such as in the context of alife-threateningillness.
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The systematic disvaluing of the old or those withlife-threateningillnessmight have a corrosive effect on social morality and community relations more generally.
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How the experience of being diagnosed and treated for a potentiallylife-threateningillnessaffects the quality of life of these survivors has raised important questions.
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It may be overly general to ask about "coping with alife-threateningillness," rather than inquiring more concretely into specific individual problems.
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Do patients withlife-threateningillnessand their informal carers experience significant spiritual needs, in the context of their total needs?
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For clients who themselves have been diagnosed with alife-threateningillness, one should be honest and direct without removing hope.
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Mariamne has just recovered from alife-threateningillness.
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In those with alife-threateningillness, the potential benefit of controlling otherwise refractory pain may far outweigh the risks, even when monitoring for arrhythmia is impractical.
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In 1999, anotherlife-threateningillnessbefell him.
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We are therefore calling for a real emergency financial plan, not a plaster to treat alife-threateningillness.
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Both were given what was hoped to be life-enhancing treatment, which instead caused alife-threateningillness.
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The experience is that many patients do not present withlife-threateningillnessoften until it is too late.
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These fasts were often unhealthy and occasionally, as in 1894, led tolife-threateningillness.
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Usually, it occurs in those afflicted by alife-threateningillness.
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He struggled with a mortallife-threateningillnessduring these years.
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In the 1990s, treatment was broadened to include any patient with alife-threateningillness.
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After recovering from alife-threateningillness, she returned in 1995 but failed to win.
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First, we do not know whether individuals from the national sample were suffering from any type oflife-threateningillnesssuch as cancer or other significant levels of comorbidity.
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As health care professionals working with people withlife-threateningillness, we are exposed to one of the major turning points in life and the ways people confront this transition.
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