illness
/ˈɪɫnəs/
nounthe state of being physically or mentally ill; a period of sickness or disease
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1. They did not know that illnesses could be transferred from one person to another.
2. They believed that bad air caused infections and illnesses.
3. Illness is a very common reason for elevated blood sugars.
4. Illness is an imbalance in the humors.
5. - Are personality disorders mental illness?
disease
/dɪˈziz/
nounan illness in a human, animal, or plant that affects health
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1. Nearly 200 years later, scientists learned that bacteria were linked to many of the terrible diseases that humans suffered from.
2. What makes meningitis so dangerous compared to other diseases is the sheer speed with which it invades a person’s body.
3. Disease spreads rapidly.
4. Still others may transmit diseases.
5. - People from Europe are bringing diseases.
sickness
/ˈsɪknəs/
nounthe state of being unwell
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1. No sickness will have any dominion over me.
2. But this sickness has a purpose.
3. Cured that sickness!
4. You get altitude sickness.
5. Some expectant fathers get morning sickness, too.
infection
/ˌɪnˈfɛkʃən/
nounthe process or the act of catching or causing a disease resulting from a bacterial or viral infestation
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1. Long ago, people did not understand infection.
2. They believed that bad air caused infections and illnesses.
3. Some NTDs cause blindness as the result of awful eye infections.
4. Infections can also worsen the condition.
5. Infections include severe dehydration and weakness.
disorder
/dɪˈsɔɹdɝ/
nouna disease or a medical condition that prevents a part of the body or mind from functioning normally
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1. Sacks has a form of prosopagnosia, a neurological disorder that impairs a person’s ability to perceive or recognize faces, also known as face blindness.
2. So conduct disorder.
3. Disorder afflicts the land!
4. Disorder afflicts the land.
5. Disorder afflicts the land!
complaint
/kəmˈpɫeɪnt/
nouna symptom or a bodily disorder that causes discontent, about which the patient seeks medical assistance
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1. Mostly noise complaints.
2. "Make a complaint".
3. Make a complaint.
4. "Complaints about NBA referees growing ugly."
5. But the management committee for the study ignored our complaints.
condition
/kənˈdɪʃən/
nouna medical problem, such as a disorder, illness, etc.
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1. Conditions were dismal.
2. Conditions were worse.
3. Today's word is conditions.
4. That conditions its spending.
5. Conditions are ideal for these birds of prey.
epidemic
/ˌɛpəˈdɛmɪk/, /ˌɛpɪˈdɛmɪk/
nounan occurrence of a disease that spreads and involves a large number of people at the same time in a particular area
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1. Epidemics are also really bad.
2. Epidemics is an ideal topic for interdisciplinary exploration.
3. What causes epidemics?
4. What causes epidemics?
5. what causes epidemics.
contagion
/kənˈteɪdʒən/
nounany disease or virus that can be easily passed from one person to another
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1. With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion.
2. That's contagion.
3. The first one showed the contagion.
4. "Contagion" is trending.
5. Trump finally understands contagion.
affliction
/əˈfɫɪkʃən/
nouna state of pain, suffering, or discomfort
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1. In ancient Greece, headaches were considered powerful afflictions.
2. Your fetid flatulence affliction is from a different source.
3. The affliction lacks borders.
4. 2 Corinthians 4:17 says, "Our light affliction."
5. Resistance is an affliction.
bug
/ˈbəɡ/
nouna fairly mild yet infectious illness that is caused by a virus or bacteria
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1. - People all over the world do eat bugs.
2. So bugs turn big molecules into little molecules.
3. - Who eats bugs?
4. Bugs have a real distinct scent to them.
5. Nobody needs bugs.
burnout
/ˈbɝˌnaʊt/
nounthe state of being physically tired after working too hard or mentally exhausted after a prolonged period of stress
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1. The outcome, of course, is burnout.
2. Residual burnout is something new.
3. Her burnout was 20 months before.
4. The second part of the equation is burnout.
5. Ultimately, burnout is more of a systemic issue than a personal issue.
indisposition
/ˌɪndˌɪspəzˈɪʃən/
nouna slight illness
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1. So, if you use it and feel any indisposition, suspend its use.
infirmity
/ɪnˈfɝmɪti/
nounthe state of being weak and unhealthy, especially due to old age or sickness
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1. In your name, Jesus, I command infirmity, go in Jesus' name.
2. And therefore, formal law has an infirmity.
3. This just reinforces the constitutional infirmity that we were addressing in the first place.
4. Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.
5. People shouldn't be laughing at your infirmity.
insanity
/ˌɪnˈsænəti/, /ˌɪnˈsænɪti/
nounrelatively permanent disorder of the mind
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1. -Dude, the production on this thing is insanity.
2. We call that insanity.
3. Again, Don Quixote's insanity puts him above or beyond the law.
4. The big kid course was complete insanity.
5. This last weekend was absolute insanity.
insufficiency
/ˌɪnsəˈfɪʃənˌsi/
noun(pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally
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1. The most common scenario is a renal insufficiency combined with excessive potassium supplements OR administration of certain drugs.
2. Cerebral forms and adrenal insufficiency are very rare in females.
3. Primary adrenal insufficiency can be diagnosed with an adrenocorticotropic hormone stimulation test.
4. Acute adrenal insufficiency could cause a temporary coma.
5. He has a murmur of mitral insufficiency.
malaise
/mæˈɫeɪz/
nouna feeling of being physically ill and irritated without knowing the reason
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1. I have feelings of malaise and sadness and sometimes even suicidal thoughts.
2. Uncertainty and malaise governed my early days at the University.
3. Uncertainty and malaise governed my early days at the university.
4. This gives a similar illness with fever, malaise, headache, myalgias, and progressive respiratory failure.
5. Onset is sudden, with fever of 100 to 102 degrees, and a general malaise.
mental illness
/mˈɛntəl ˈɪlnəs/
nounany disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention
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1. This video is going to be part of a project called Mental Illness and Me.
2. - I'm an ambassador for NAMI the National Alliance for Mental Illness and it's a big passion of mine, but you and my mom almost got me this for my birthday.
3. So there was a lot of meaning in my life because I was performing this type of research during the day, but then in the evenings and on the weekends, I traveled as an advocate for NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
4. Mental illness, the people stuck At Home. .
5. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, approximately one in every five teenagers deals with depression and 8 percent of all teenagers deal with a major depressive disorder.
pandemic
/pænˈdɛmɪk/
nouna disease that spreads across a large region or even across the world
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1. Purchase prices have stabilized recently due to new policies, political unrest, and the global pandemic.
2. Actually, last year when the pandemic was greater than ever, we have the highest revenue here for the shops.
3. Then in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic closed down clothing factories in China.
4. Our main story tonight concerns pandemics.
5. Few industries have felt the impact of the coronavirus pandemic more than the restaurant industry.
syndrome
/ˈsɪnˌdɹoʊm/
nouna set of characteristics, behaviors, or qualities considered as normal for a particular type of person
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1. Those interactions could cause serotonin syndrome.
2. Now often, a result of Capgras syndrome is tragic.
3. HELLP syndrome develops in about 10 to 20% of women with severe preeclampsia or eclampsia.
4. White-nose syndrome has wiped out populations of bats.
5. Down syndrome babies have typical facial features.
lump
/ˈɫəmp/
nouna swollen area under the skin, usually caused by a sickness or injury
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1. Blobby lumps into the face of a friend.
2. Suck my lumps!
3. I lumped classifiers and determinatives and radicals together.
4. People lump everyone together
5. Break up any lumps.
cough
/ˈkɑf/, /ˈkɔf/
nouna condition or disease that makes one cough frequently
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1. -Everybody, cough my face.
2. - Specifically coughing.
3. Coughing, cracking of gum, clearing of the throat, all that.
4. It coughed.
5. Oh, baby has a cough.
trauma
/ˈtɹɔmə/
nouna physical injury
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1. Trauma disrupts your health.
2. Trauma impacts our comfort.
3. And trauma requires healing.
4. Today's word is trauma.
5. Hoarding implies trauma.
injury
/ˈɪndʒɝi/
nounany physical damage to part of the body caused by an accident or attack
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1. Injuries were mounting.
2. Injuries played a major part.
3. Injuries have characterized this beef ever since.
4. You have injuries.
5. Intentionally causing injury.
incapacity
/ˌɪnkəˈpæsəti/
nounthe state of being physically or mentally unable to do one's work or to manage one's affairs
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1. The blurry vision is related to the lack of clarity, which results in the incapacity of seeing fine details.
2. That in fact feeds the incapacity.
3. Incompatibility is about having differences that in and of themselves create an incapacity to sustain harmony.
4. Most journalists and reporters were deeply wounded in their childhood relative to their incapacity to actually gain importance.
5. The life experience of the average millennial, has been imbued with powerlessness, a belief in their own incapacity and therefore low self-esteem.
bout
/ˈbaʊt/
nouna short period during which someone is suffering from an illness or disease
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1. Bout' to dip into Red Dead Redemption 2?
2. - Bout a handful of nuts.
3. He offered Bout safe haven.
4. Something proprietary's bout to take place.
5. - Just thinking bout like random things.
carrier
/ˈkæɹiɝ/, /ˈkɛɹiɝ/
nouna person or animal that carries a disease, without suffering from it themselves, and transmits to other people or animals
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1. U.S. carriers lost a record $60 billion, according to Airlines for America, an industry, trade and lobbying group.
2. In 2019 the carrier expanded its farm-to-plane initiative for one of the world's longest flights.
3. Now, strategic carriers are widening their scopes.
4. The carrier wants $725 for the phone, or $24 a month for 30 months.
5. Mail carriers represent the largest group of postal service employees.
community spread
/kəmjˈuːnɪɾi spɹˈɛd/
nounthe spread of an illness or disease, particularly a contagious one, for which the source of infection is unknown
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1. We're still seeing a lot of community spread.
2. We're still seeing a lot of community spread.
3. Community spread among people in Taiwan was very, very low.
4. What's the deal with community spread?
5. In those situations we label that community spread.
dehydration
/ˌdihaɪˈdɹeɪʃən/
nouna harmful state in which the body has lost a lot of water
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1. Salt can cause dehydration.
2. Dry mouth and a sticky tongue equals dehydration.
3. dehydration, check its water bowl, or even a heart disease.
4. Dehydration causes fatigue.
5. Dehydration can cause headaches, fatigue, dizziness, and irritability.
exacerbation
/ɪɡˌzæsɝˈbeɪʃən/
nounthe act of aggravating a disease, pain, illness, etc.
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1. A child has yet another asthma exacerbation because they live in an old building.
2. Asthmatic attack, or exacerbation, happens when the airways react to these substances.
3. Your assigned client, James Robyn, presented to the ED with an exacerbation of COPD, which is characterized by inflammation, hypersecretion of mucus, airway obstruction and alveolar destruction.
4. An acute exacerbation of COPD is usually the result of an infection but can also be caused by seasonal allergies or inhalation of irritants.
5. Increased risk for asthma and exacerbation of asthma among those that had it previously.
malady
/ˈmæɫədi/
nounany physical problem that might put one's health in danger
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1. No mechanical maladies to report!
2. These are maladies that ail modern society and modern medicine.
3. From him the malady received its name.
4. Juvenile distraction, lesbianism, mania, all of these maladies can be reversed.
5. These maladies come for us all.
malaise
/mæˈɫeɪz/
nouna feeling of being physically ill and irritated without knowing the reason
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1. I have feelings of malaise and sadness and sometimes even suicidal thoughts.
2. Uncertainty and malaise governed my early days at the University.
3. Uncertainty and malaise governed my early days at the university.
4. This gives a similar illness with fever, malaise, headache, myalgias, and progressive respiratory failure.
5. Onset is sudden, with fever of 100 to 102 degrees, and a general malaise.
nausea
/ˈnɔziə/
nounthe feeling of wanting to vomit, caused by an illness or something frightening or shocking
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1. I had nausea.
2. I felt nausea.
3. The fumes are giving me nausea.
4. The hormones can also greatly increase nausea.
5. Nausea Have you ever felt woozy?
pain
/ˈpeɪn/
noununpleasant feeling caused by an illness or injury
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1. When he hugged his daughter to soothe his pain, he realized his mistake too late.
2. He was in diabolical pain. -
3. Pain creates an empowered person.
4. Pain requires presence.
5. - Does your kink involve pain?
pallor
/pˈælɚ/
nounthe condition of having an unhealthy pale appearance as a result of illness, emotional distress, etc.
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1. But you'd be wrong to mistake her size and pallor for frailty.
2. They could stand at a podium and thump it and look unhinged with their hair and their hands and their pallor.
3. His long black hair scattered over the straw bolster contrasted with the olive pallor of his face.
4. But a deadly pallor, overspreading her face, had proved to me that my exertions to reassure her would be fruitless.
5. There would be an elevated pulse, pain in the chest and shoulders, general lassitude, a loss of weight, pallor, declining performance at work or at school.
pathogen
/ˈpæθədʒən/
nounany organism that can cause disease
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1. It detects specific pathogens.
2. Contain the pathogen!
3. Pathogens have local populations within hosts.
4. Here's the pathogen.
5. One sick person's sneeze can release aerosolized pathogens into the air.
patient zero
/pˈeɪʃənt zˈiəɹoʊ/
nounthe first individual to be identified as the carrier of an infectious disease in a new outbreak region
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1. It's been two months since patient zero took a bite of a contaminated burger at a Gas N' Gulp.
2. Being the patient zero of a new animal-to-human plague is winning a terrible lottery.
3. Finding the primary case, or patient zero, is irrelevant.
4. Was Gitchell patient zero?
5. Who was the patient zero of this story?
attack
/əˈtæk/
nounan onset of a disease that is severe and often sudden in nature
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1. We experience reconnaissance missions and attacks against electrical companies every day.
2. Iranian photographer Kaveh Golestan witnessed the gas attacks from a helicopter.
3. So the proton will attack an unshared pair on the oxygen.
4. Attack the chlorine.
5. So, the analogy to that is attacking protons.
emaciation
/iːmˈeɪsɪˈeɪʃən/
nounextreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)
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1. President Garfield died on September 19 of sepsis and emaciation.
2. The abundance of life is holding the emaciation of death.
3. His hair was already silvering with grey, and no one who glanced at the senile emaciation of the face would have believed that he was only forty years old.
4. It causes anemia and emaciation.
agony
/ˈæɡəni/
nounsevere physical or mental pain
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1. It is agony.
2. Agony is probably the best word.
3. In agony, the old man lost his grip on Rogers.
4. Agony means pain.
5. So agony is more powerful than just normal pain.
coma
/ˈkoʊmə/
nouna state of deep unconsciousness, typically of a long duration and caused by a serious injury or severe illness
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1. Eventually, doctors induced a coma.
2. - Food coma turned into bed time.
3. Acute adrenal insufficiency could cause a temporary coma.
4. Now comas are measured on a scale from 15 down to three.
5. Fifteen is a mild coma.
superspreader
/sˈuːpɚspɹˌɛdɚ/
nounsomeone who spreads a contagious disease to a very large number of people
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1. Trump keeps going from state to state holding superspreader rallies where people are tightly packed in without masks or social distancing, even in states experiencing surges in hospitalizations and case loads like Wisconsin.
2. We had a superspreader event in the White House.
3. Today joe biden called it a superspreader event.
4. Not only as the superspreader in chief running around the country breathing on everyone in a MAGA hat, but Rudy Giuliani, Trump's top lawyer and White House Halloween decoration actually told a rally the other day that quote, "People don't die of this disease anymore."
5. And the process included a COVID superspreader event at the White House.
symptom
/ˈsɪmptəm/
nouna change in the normal condition of the body or a person, which is the sign of a disease
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1. It's worth pointing out here that some meta-analyses suggest that antidepressants aren't any more effective than psychotherapy when symptoms are mild to moderate.
2. Symptoms include diarrhea, vomiting, headache, fever, and abdominal cramps.
3. Symptoms include cramps, fatigue, headaches, vomiting, dizziness and fainting!
4. During the manic cycle, symptoms include a lack of focus and disorganized thought.
5. Symptoms include - wheezing, chest pain, trouble breathing and fatigue.
unconsciousness
/ˌənˈkɑnʃəsnɪs/
nounthe state of not being awake or aware of one's surroundings
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1. Then, she fell into unconsciousness.
2. Then you will fall into unconsciousness.
3. Even the most exquisite spiritual methodologies, can become troughs of unconsciousness.
4. Breath in consciousness, breath out unconsciousness.
5. You will transcend your own unconsciousness, prejudices and ignorance.
undernourishment
/ˌʌndɚnˈɜːɹɪʃmənt/
nounnot having enough food to develop or function normally
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1. Desire is that animal that remains fit only through undernourishment.
2. Our excess weight is a symbol of our background emotional undernourishment.
3. One in nine people in the world suffers from undernourishment.
4. Nearly one billion people in the world suffer from hunger and mal or undernourishment today.
5. So here's data on global undernourishment.
upset
/ˈəpˌsɛt/, /əpˈsɛt/
nouna physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
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1. This greasy nonsense just upset her stomach.
2. Upsetting the social order.
3. Caffeine overload from black tea can further upset your stomach.
4. He upset my parents
5. These phrases might upset your child.
red zone
/ɹˈɛd zˈoʊn/
nounan area where there is a high number of people carrying an infection and strict public health rules are in place
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1. I’m parked in the red zone.
2. The key is in the red zone.
3. I'm definitely in the red zone on this one.
4. That's the Red Zone.
5. - I was in the red zone.
relapse
/ɹiˈɫæps/
nounthe fact of returning to a previous dire state or to become worse after making an improvement
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1. I relapsed.
2. I relapsed a fortnight ago.
3. About 15 to 20 percent of people may relapse in this situation.
4. He's relapsed.
5. You Will Relapse:
seizure
/ˈsiʒɝ/
nouna sudden and painful attack caused by an illness
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1. The result is seizures.
2. Seizures happen as a result of a sudden surge in the brain’s electrical activities.
3. Medication successfully controls seizures for about 70% of cases.
4. Seizures define the onset of eclampsia.
5. Gluten May Cause Seizures
shake
/ˈʃeɪk/
nouna rhythmic motion in one or more parts of one's body that is an involuntary response to cold, fear, or excitement
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1. Then the priest shook his head.
2. Shake your bahooky.
3. Always shake your perfoom.
4. Just shake your rump.
5. People are shaking their heads.
sickness
/ˈsɪknəs/
nounthe state of being unwell
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1. No sickness will have any dominion over me.
2. But this sickness has a purpose.
3. Cured that sickness!
4. You get altitude sickness.
5. Some expectant fathers get morning sickness, too.
sneeze
/ˈsniz/
nounthe act of air blowing out of our nose and mouth in a way that we cannot control
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1. People with colds usually sneeze a lot.
2. Sneezes travel at great speeds.
3. My mom sneezes.
4. Sneezes are involuntary.
5. - Sneezed.
cyst
/ˈsɪst/
nouna growth with abnormal features that appears in the body and contains fluid
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1. Cysts in muscle tissue may cause no symptoms, or just a slightly sore lump.
2. It says artemia cysts.
3. So the polyp is a cyst.
4. Those cysts represent a surgical problem.
5. - Whoa. - Creates cysts.
debility
/dəˈbɪɫəti/
nounphysical weakness or infirmity that is caused by a disease, illness, or aging
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1. But the thing that made Whitman an amazing poet was that he included within the realm of bodily being in the world debility and death and deterioration and breakdown.
2. This is probably a good thing as the human body is not adapted well for extreme height, and those outliers who do tower over the rest of us often suffer from various pains and other debilities related to their abnormal height as they age.
clean bill of health
/klˈiːn bˈɪl ʌv hˈɛlθ/
phrasea doctor's report stating that the patient is in good physical or mental health
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