mild illness
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmildandillness
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mild
adjective
uk/maɪld/us/maɪld/
not violent, severe, ...
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illness
noun
uk/ˈɪl.nəs/us/ˈɪl.nəs/
a disease of the body ...
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(Definition ofmildandillnessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmild illness
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Under-reporting of viral gastroenteritis is common because it is usually amildillness.
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There is anecdotal evidence to suggest that many young infants in our study area are given repeated courses of antibiotics as treatment formildillnessand also for prophylaxis.
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Poor sanitation and contaminated water supplies usually produce infection in early childhood, which results inmildillness.
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It is possible thatmildillnessmay have been associated with a serological response but that these symptoms would not have been recalled at the time of blood sampling.
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They claim that if it exists at all, it is amildillnessthat only the middle class can get—it is all in the mind.
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It is amildillness, but if a woman has it during pregnancy, it raises grave risks of a child being born with severe defects.
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We are concerned about the patient who goes into a private medical unit suffering from amildillness and who subsequently develops unexpected and perhaps serious complications.
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Echo 11 virus is only one of many types of entero-virus, infections from which are in most cases inapparent or result in onlymildillness.
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It demonstrated bit by bit in individual case studies the deterioration of the state of mind, followed by limited resistance, followed bymildillness, followed by serious illness.
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Usually, sufferers have either no symptoms or only amildillnesswith fever, headache, myalgia and liver abnormalities.
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However, a placebo-controlled study of nitazoxanide in cryptosporidiosis demonstrated significant clinical improvement in adults and children withmildillness.
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Physical symptoms that may occur because of occupational stress include fatigue, headache, upset stomach, muscular aches and pains, chronicmildillness, sleep disturbances, and eating disorders.
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People with mild illnesses are not rendered utterly incapable of coming in to work.
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For instance, it is better to leave mild illnesses untreated so as to build immunity rather than ingest antibiotics at the mildest sneeze.
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