severe illness
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsevereandillness
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severe
adjective
uk/sɪˈvɪər/us/səˈvɪr/
causing very great pain, difficulty, worry, damage, etc.; ...
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illness
noun
uk/ˈɪl.nəs/us/ˈɪl.nəs/
a disease of the body ...
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(Definition ofsevereandillnessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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If so, the lesssevereillnessis still serious.
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People withsevereillnesschose the item having no pain instead of physical health, compared to those not having anysevereillness.
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Women with asevereillnessalso selected functional ability more often than healthier women.
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Both patients hadsevereillnesswith diagnoses of lung cancer0hepatoma and multiple organ failure.
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Men with asevereillnessselected physical health less often than healthier men.
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Long-term bed rest fromsevereillness, for example, stroke or extended infections.
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Those withsevereillnessalso selected social relations more frequently than their healthier counterparts.
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It is plausible that saving a larger number of people from a slightly lesssevereillnessis better than saving a smaller number of people from the moresevereillness.
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For instance, the side effects of chemotherapy - hair loss, nausea, relentless vomiting - are clear markers of verysevereillness.
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Such creative experiments could involve exploring how to adjust activities to adapt to bodily and psychosocial consequences ofsevereillness.
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They may have accidents or suffersevereillness.
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After asevereillness, people sometimes lose all their hair.
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They interpreted this finding to mean that a moresevereillnessis required to produce delirium in those without prior cognitive dysfunction.
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For example, little is known about why and how such activities function so as to be useful to the individual dealing withsevereillness.
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Those aged 80 or more years particularly valued functional ability, and those withsevereillnessplaced a relatively high valuation on social relations.
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This may lead them to refuse types of care that may presuppose moresevereillnessthan they are willing to accept.
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Too little arousal, or mental lethargy, as may occur insevereillnessor fatigue, may not be sufficient to stimulate alertness.
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The average duration of minor plussevereillness(excluding trivial) was 6-6 days in manual families and 5-4 days in non-manual families.
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We conclude that our patient had acute on chronic thiamine deficiency, precipitated bysevereillness, and presented with profound cardiac failure.
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It is unknown whether one approach was more successful over the other with regard to reducing the risk ofsevereillnessand infections related to this outbreak.
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The case-control study findings support some, but not all, of the original hypotheses concerning the chain of events that led tosevereillnessin so many individuals.
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Serial adaptation is required to produce lethal disease in rodents because isolates obtained from fatal primate infections rarely producesevereillnessin rodents on initial exposure.
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