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

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