terminal illness
collocation in Englishmeaningsofterminalandillness
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terminal
adjective
uk/ˈtɜː.mɪ.nəl/us/ˈtɝː.mə.nəl/
(of a disease or illness) leading gradually ...
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illness
noun
uk/ˈɪl.nəs/us/ˈɪl.nəs/
a disease of the body ...
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(Definition ofterminalandillnessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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An initial assessment of suffering interminalillness.
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When the patients experience fears orterminalillness, emotional support becomes important.
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In popular discourse aboutterminalillness, of course, hope and life are of ten equated.
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Factors associated with the wish to hasten death : a study of patients withterminalillness.
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Participants were also asked to imagine the case of their ownterminalillness.
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The person suffering fromterminalillnesswill die, as will we all.
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Current approaches to helping children cope with a parent'sterminalillness.
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The implications of these results f or studies ofterminalillnessare discussed.
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Factors associated with the wish to hasten death : a study of patient withterminalillness.
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Patients react differently toterminalillnessdepending on their background and prior spiritual experiences.
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Certainly,terminalillnessand the dying process cause the body to change and deteriorate.
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To be sure, a person dying of aterminalillnessis, ipso facto, considered a patient.
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Even brain chemistry can turn on a patient, as happens in aterminalillness.
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She is suffering from aterminalillness.
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A previous history of prolonged sepsis related to the surgical scar confused the diagnosis of her acuteterminalillness.
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Any attendee whose occupation involved working with traumatic loss,terminalillness, or bereavement was eligible to participate in the study.
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Finally, we discuss the implications of translating expressed goals and uncertainties into a patient-centered care plan forterminalillness.
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There are two persons with the same level of unhappiness, both of whom have a painfulterminalillness.
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We selected original articles that focused on the preferences of patients with chronic, severe, orterminalillness.
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Even interminalillnessthere are ways in which a person's functional abilities can be facilitated or impeded.
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However, little research has investigated whether those actually facing lifethreatening orterminalillnessexperience changes in their spiritual lives.
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The most common circumstances described related to the diagnosis of aterminalillnessand the diagnosis of lung cancer.
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The often inevitable loss of physical dignity which accompaniesterminalillnesswas redressed by study participants in several ways.
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