illness : Idioms & Phrases
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catastrophic illness
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noun severe illness requiring prolonged hospitalization or recovery; usually involves high costs for hospitals and doctors and medicines
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manic depressive illness
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noun a mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression
manic-depressive psychosis; bipolar disorder; manic depression.
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mental illness
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noun any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention
psychopathy; mental disease.
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persian gulf illness
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noun a medical condition of uncertain origin that affected many veterans of the 1991 Gulf War; characterized by fatigue and headache and dizziness and nausea and rashes and joint pain and respiratory disorders
Gulf War syndrome.
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respiratory illness
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noun a disease affecting the respiratory system
respiratory disease; respiratory disorder.