systemic illness

collocation in English

meaningsofsystemicandillness

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systemic
adjective
uk
/sɪˈstem.ɪk/us
/sɪˈstem.ɪk/
biologyspecialized
A systemic drug, disease, or poison reaches and has an effect on the whole of a body or a plant and not just one part ...
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illness
noun
uk
/ˈɪl.nəs/us
/ˈɪl.nəs/
a disease of the body ...
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(Definition ofsystemicandillnessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The anaemia, neutropenia and thrombocytopenia may occur either singly or in combination and there is, by definition, no underlyingsystemicillnessto account for them.
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Current treatment during the acute phase has two major goals: to achieve a reduction in the overallsystemicillness, and to prevent coronary arterial abnormalities (aneurysms and thrombosis).
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Gastrointestinal infection can be a majorsystemicillness, causing high fever, copious diarrhoea, vomiting and pain.
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Signs and symptoms include: intermittent fevers, anemia, leukocytosis, increased sedimentation rate, and other symptoms of inflammatorysystemicillness.
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In one study of clinically diagnosed brown recluse bites, skin necrosis occurred 37% of the time, whilesystemicillnessoccurred 14% of the time.
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He took early retirement in 1988 suffering asystemicillnessthat he ascribed to sick building syndrome.
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Bilateral heel pain or heel pain in the context of asystemicillnessmay indicate a need for a more in-depth diagnostic investigation.
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Common causes include localized infection, minor injury to the matrix bed, or severesystemicillness.
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Besides viral, bacterial and parasitic causes, a number of systemic illnesses cause diarrhoea.
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Patients with "variola minor" experience only a mildsystemicillness, are often ambulant throughout the course of the disease, and are therefore able to more easily spread disease.
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Proximal muscle weakness and stiffness are associated with numerous systemic illnesses.
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In other cases, it can be attributed to vigorous manicuring and trauma aforementioned, or to a wide variety of systemic illnesses.
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Many diseases and underlying systemic illnesses can be diagnosed from nail bed clues.
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