disabling illness
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdisablingandillness
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disabling
adjective
uk/dɪˈseɪ.blɪŋ/us/dɪˈseɪ.blɪŋ/
(of an illness, injury, or condition) making it difficult for someone to do the things that other ...
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illness
noun
uk/ˈɪl.nəs/us/ˈɪl.nəs/
a disease of the body ...
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(Definition ofdisablingandillnessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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All health boards provide acute and continuing hospital and community care for sufferers fromdisablingillnessincluding stroke.
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It is a mostdisablingillnessif we define disablement as a condition which prevents people from following their normal lives and careers.
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All health boards provide acute and continuing hospital and community care for sufferers fromdisablingillnessincluding stroke.
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They will be symbolic of the determination of people who are suffering from adisablingillnessto help themselves.
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In fact, it was someone from the social work department doing a survey about how her husband had contracted hisdisablingillness.
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It has been shown that men in particular will spend the last 15 years of their life with a chronic ordisablingillness.
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The beauty of going to a doctor and explaining one's symptoms is that the doctor may be able to detect a severedisablingillnessin its early stages.
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It is adisablingillnessfor an estimated 70,000 to 90,000 of our fellow citizens, many of whom suffer from other phobias at the same time.
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After completing some fifty large canvases in 1997, at the age of 80, he was diagnosed with adisablingillness.
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However, the most severe and disabling illnesses formed only a minor group, and their influence remained unclear.
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This hospital offers both inpatient and outpatient programs to teens and adults and assesses disabling illnesses, stroke, head injuries, spinal injuries, and orthopedic injuries.
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