severe form
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsevereandform
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severe
adjective
uk/sɪˈvɪər/us/səˈvɪr/
causing very great pain, difficulty, worry, damage, etc.; ...
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form
noun
uk/fɔːm/us/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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(Definition ofsevereandformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There is increasing evidence that pertussis continues to affect adolescents and young adults who were vaccinated as infants, albeit in a lesssevereform.
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Reactive attachment disorder is asevereformof attachment problem.
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This might par ticularly characterize young men for whom onset of the moresevereformoccurs at a younger age than onsets in women.
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Thus, asevereformof propositional knowledge is properly marginalised.
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Unless one retrieves one's name and shadow, one will quickly succumb to asevereformof the illness described above.
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Progression to a lesssevereformis rare.
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Caseworkers rated the mostsevereformof maltreatment children had experienced, based on the frequency, duration, and severity of maltreatment incidents.
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If no trade is allowed-asevereformof a borrowing constraint-then per-capita output is constant even if agents have different permanent incomes.
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A grade is assigned according the mostsevereformof dysplasia present at some part of the tricuspid valve.
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When the neural tube fails to close at the caudal end, asevereformof spina bifida known as rachischisis occurs.
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Both patients had asevereformof the disease with very narrow pulmonary arteries.
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The type of progression documented to date has usually been to a moresevereform, with a worse outlook than originally envisaged.
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Waning of immunity in later life would leave individuals susceptible to the moresevereformof varicella associated with adulthood.
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We have recently encountered the antenatal progression of an atrioventricular septal defect to a moresevereformof defect.
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This mutant exhibits craniorachischisis, the mostsevereformof neural tube defect characterized by an open neural tube from the midbrain/hindbrain boundary throughout the spine.
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This case report illustrates an example of a structural heart defect where the change during fetal life was to a lesssevereformof the lesion.
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Failure of this event leads to the mostsevereformof neural tube defect, termed craniorachischisis, in which almost the entire brain and spinal cord is affected.
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Several of the host stars have evolved onto either the subgiant or giant branch, and planets in those systems are undergoing a rathersevereformof global warming.
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