fatal illness

collocation in English

meaningsoffatalandillness

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withillness.
fatal
adjective
uk
/ˈfeɪ.təl/us
/ˈfeɪ.t̬əl/
A fatal illness, accident, etc. ...
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illness
noun
uk
/ˈɪl.nəs/us
/ˈɪl.nəs/
a disease of the body ...
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(Definition offatalandillnessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffatal illness

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Such patients and families face the conundrum of a potentially treatable yet oftenfatalillness.
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Also, the principles of palliative care should be applied as early as possible during a chronic andfatalillness.
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A person with an asymptomatic disease such as hypertension or coronary disease, if untreated, will likely suffer serious orfatalillness.
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A person may be perfectly well, yet capable of transmittingfatalillnessto other people.
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Early in the game, she dies from afatalillness.
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It was not possible to link hisfatalillnesswith the attack that had been made upon him.
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These women may unwittingly be precipitating in their unborn child the occurrence of a potentiallyfatalillness.
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A third common sequence occurs when a parent who had been independent has an acutefatalillnessand dies in hospital : the care-giving career only involves the institutionalisation phase.
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It is afatalillnessand those last three months are extremely traumatic for the family and extremely painful and distressing for the individual sufferer.
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But we know that thefatalillnessof this system is the major fact—the overwhelming fact—of living to-day; it is an uncomfortable, uncomforting fact.
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Many people can be told that they have afatalillnesswho could not have taken being told that years ago.
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As thefatalillnesswas unconnected with the late soldier's military service, payment of treatment allowances or funeral expenses were not admissible.
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In both these cases there was a physical explanation for the condition and the mental derangement was a terminal phase of thefatalillness.
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A breast cancer survivor, she deals with the recurrence of thefatalillness.
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He does not realize that he has a failing kidney, a likelyfatalillness.
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They made camp by the river, but kept succumbing to a strange andfatalillness.
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At the same time he was diagnosed with afatalillness.
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A serious and almostfatalillnessinterfered with his plans, yet he was not idle.
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Her career was cut short by afatalillnessin 2002.
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Struggling professionally, he is struck by an incurable andfatalillness.
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People seem to have a built-in self-defence mechanism, and in the terminal stages of afatalillness they can convince themselves that it is not fatal.
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Yet in 1950 fewer than one in 50 of the world population had asthma, and before the 1960s, asthma was not regarded as afatalillness.
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All parents should realise that the tragedy of a car accident or afatalillnessinvolving them could lead to their youngsters finding themselves in this dreadful situation.
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She was still teaching in the spring of 2009 when she was stricken with a brief butfatalillness.
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