autoimmune
/ˌɔˈtɔɪmjun/
adjectiveof or relating to the immune response of the body against substance normally present in the body
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1. - I have an autoimmune disease.
2. - You have an autoimmune disease.
3. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease.
4. Alisa Grishman, a Pittsburgh disability rights advocate, has six autoimmune diseases.
5. Do autoimmune disorders contribute?
communicable
/kəmˈjunəkəbəɫ/
adjective(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
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1. That's column one, communicable diseases.
2. The past is renewable in translation, it is communicable.
3. And finally, communicable diseases can easily spread from one passenger to others in an enclosed plane environment, and no one wants that.
4. Another thing is disease starts spreading, communicable disease because the population is dense enough that the disease does not die out.
5. To communicable diseases, it might be health clinics or mosquito nets.
chronic
/ˈkɹɑnɪk/
adjective(of an illness) difficult to cure and long-lasting
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1. The consequences of chronic sleep deprivation can be truly disastrous.
2. And chronic stress degrades the brain.
3. Chronic anger slows neurogenesis way down.
4. So does chronic illness cause mental health issues?
5. Painful emotions only become chronic.
catching
/ˈkætʃɪŋ/
adjective(of disease or illness) likely to be transmitted from one person to another
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1. It is incredibly unique and eye catching.
2. But we are so focused on the catching that we don't even pay attention to the commitment that is required.
3. Dietsch is the author of Catching Capital--
4. Catching is fun, but the most important aspect to Carl and Viviana's research is the biometrics.
5. Create an eye catching desk by cutting a round tabletop in half and mounting it to the wall.
benign
/bɪˈnaɪn/
adjective(of an ilness) not fatal or harmful
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1. Yes the freckles are benign!
2. It's benign.
3. Two, antibiotics are not benign medications.
4. Ironically, the largest shark of all is also benign.
5. Are they benign?
autistic
/ɔˈtɪstɪk/
adjectiveaffected by or referring to autism
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1. Autistic people live normal lives, fantastic lives.
2. The diagnosis came in: 'Autistic!'
3. The younger one is also autistic.
4. The younger one is also autistic.
5. I'm a savant, or more precisely, a high-functioning autistic savant.
asymptomatic
/ˌeɪˌsɪmptəˈmætɪk/
adjectivehaving no symptoms of illness or disease
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1. Some are asymptomatic.
2. Ok, now, beta thalassemia minor is usually asymptomatic.
3. Unlike smallpox, the vast majority of polio cases were asymptomatic.
4. Some people with Covid-19 are asymptomatic.
5. Also called asymptomatic urinary infection.
congenital
/kənˈdʒɛnətəɫ/
adjectivehaving a disease since birth but not necessarily hereditary
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1. We call that congenital esotropia.
2. Others have congenital prosopagnosia.
3. Mitral stenosis can also be congenital.
4. Congenital cytomegalovirus infection is the infection of a fetus with cytomegalovirus, or CMV, during intrauterine life.
5. Many Down syndrome babies have congenital heart defects.
contagious
/kənˈteɪdʒəs/
adjective(of a disease) transmittable from one person to another through close contact
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1. Your energy is contagious.
2. A leader's energy is contagious.
3. Enthusiasm is contagious!
4. Laughter is contagious.
5. Enthusiasm is contagious.
degenerative
/dɪˈdʒɛnɝətɪv/
adjective(of illness) marked by gradual deterioration of organs and cells along with loss of function
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1. Maverick's condition is degenerative.
2. He had degenerative disk disease.
3. Can we prevent long-term degenerative arthritis after an ACL repair?
4. Arthritic changes, degenerative changes, bulging discs.
5. I have a degenerative bone disease.
febrile
/fˈɛbɹaɪl/
adjectiveof or relating to or characterized by fever
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1. He's febrile.
2. [Dr. Mears] I want 25 rows of 10 beds apiece, the most febrile cases at this end.
3. And in a febrile seizure, the trigger for that neuronal activity is a fever.
4. Febrile seizures are seizures that happen together with a fever in children.
5. But we have a very febrile mood in Britain at the moment.
fulminant
/fˈʊlmɪnənt/
adjectivesudden and severe
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1. An eighth important question is whether the disease is fulminant in its course, or is it slow acting and a wasting disease?
2. If we look, for example, at cholera, one of the features, and a striking one, is that it was one of the most fulminant of diseases.
3. It can be fulminant and lead to death in months.
4. In the most fulminant cases, the aspect of the patient resembles that of someone suffering from severe shock and loss of blood.
5. But normally smallpox wasn't fulminant quite like that, and the patient passed on to the next phase, which was the eruptive one, exhibiting the classical symptoms of smallpox that led to its diagnosis.
incurable
/ˌɪnˈkjʊɹəbəɫ/
adjective(of a disease or a sick person) impossible to cure or unresponsive to treatment
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1. Cancers become almost incurable once they metastasize.
2. And being a narcissist, I am of course incurable.
3. It is transmissible, incurable, and 100% fatal.
4. Children with birth defects were labeled incurables, and confined for life to inhuman conditions.
5. Mice with multiple myeloma, an incurable malignancy of the bone marrow, respond dramatically to the treatment with this drug.
infectious
/ˌɪnˈfɛkʃəs/
adjective(of a disease or disease-causing organism) likely to be transmitted from one person, animal, or plant to another in a rapid manner
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1. Your style is infectious.
2. Your smile is infectious.
3. Your style is infectious.
4. Her energy is so infectious.
5. Such fear and mistrust was infectious.
inflammatory
/ɪnˈfɫæməˌtɔɹi/
adjectivecharacterized or caused by inflammation
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1. Your second line of defense is your inflammatory response.
2. Inflammatory factors, already mentioned those.
3. Those particles, then, can start an inflammatory response.
4. The word agenda is very inflammatory.
5. The heme iron in animal products is inflammatory.
malignant
/məˈɫɪɡnənt/
adjective(of a tumor or disease) uncontrollable and likely to be fatal
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1. It's malignant.
2. Its consumption can prevent malignant genetic alterations in cells.
3. Is it a malignant?
4. Malignant narcissists usually have an overlay of some other form of mental disorder.
5. The most dangerous one is actually the malignant narcissist.
mentally
/ˈmɛnəɫi/, /ˈmɛntəɫi/
adverbof or relating to one's mind
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1. Broken mentally.
2. The girl was mentally retarded.
3. The boss had an impact on me mentally.
4. They mentally stimulate your brain.
5. Mentally review each emotion.
mild
/ˈmaɪɫd/
adjectivenot much, serious, or strong
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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. The fizziness is kind of mild.
3. The mango is also mild.
4. 82% of these cases are mild.
5. This one is very mild.
morbid
/ˈmɔɹbəd/
adjectivecaused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology
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1. Morbidity or morbid is a clinical term for disease state.
2. This is morbid.
3. Back in Soviet times, things got pretty morbid
4. But the giraffes' morbid curiosity blows the lions' cover.
5. This is morbid.
pathological
/ˌpæθəˈɫɑdʒɪkəɫ/
adjectiverelating to or caused by an illness or disease
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1. Not every emotional response is pathological.
2. Not all fear or depressed mood is pathological.
3. Regardless of the underlying cause, however, the group shares similar pathological changes.
4. Now the mucosal tissue in the oral cavity can undergo several premalignant pathological changes.
5. All narcissists are pathological liars.
psychosomatic
/saɪˌkoʊsəˈmætɪk/
adjective(of a physical illness) caused or aggravated by mental factors, such as stress and anxiety
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1. It's all psychosomatic.
2. If they can't find a specific trigger or reason for the pain were told that it's not happening and that it's psychosomatic that we're doing in our head.
3. The apparent symptoms have been explained as everything from hormonal changes to a psychosomatic condition.
4. It could be psychosomatic, but I feel like-- and also to be fair, I will stand by this, you can get really, really good bottles of wine for $11.
5. In turn, this leads to psychosomatic pain.
quiescent
/kwaɪˈɛsənt/
adjective(pathology) causing no symptoms
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1. These are called quiescent galaxies because at some point in the galaxy’s life, its star formation stopped.
2. Their autopsy revealed the characteristic signs of strangulation: the quiescent galaxies had much higher levels of heavy metals than the living, star-forming galaxies.
3. And just like in most major galaxies, this black hole is currently quiescent.
4. Sometimes periapical abscesses become quiescent, meaning that they don’t grow much but the bacteria remain alive within the abscess cavity.
5. Normally, they're just sitting there sort of in a quiescent state, not reproducing very rapidly, making collagen, providing matrix to keep up sort of the normal structure of your skin.
rheumatic
/ɹuˈmætɪk/
adjectiveof or pertaining to arthritis
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1. The jaundice lasted five weeks, and the rheumatic arthritis did not relapse until several weeks after the jaundice had disappeared.
2. Mitral stenosis is most commonly caused by rheumatic fever, a complication of untreated strep throat or scarlet fever during childhood.
3. For this reason, it is most prevalent in developing countries where rheumatic fever is more common.
4. Because most cases of mitral stenosis are caused by rheumatic fever, prompt treatment of strep throat with antibiotics effectively prevents both rheumatic fever and mitral stenosis.
5. Another important cause of aortic stenosis is chronic rheumatic fever, which can cause repeated inflammation and repair, leading to fibrosis.
terminal
/ˈtɝmənəɫ/
adjective(of an illness) having no cure and gradually leading to death
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1. The terminal has two MetroNap sleep pods.
2. Where is my terminal?
3. They have terminal illnesses.
4. Do both terminals.
5. Failure is not terminal.
tubercular
/tˈuːbɚkjˌʊlɚ/
adjectiverelating to or suffering from tuberculosis, a severe and contagious infection that mainly affects one's lungs
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1. Plus, it was just kind of a tubercular era, so I thought I would try to capture it by bringing you my husky voice.
2. That meant grappling with the class consciousness of my maternal grandmother, a young woman looking for any way to escape where she had come from, a sodden, tubercular hollow, where she lived with her parents and older--
3. So, the tubercular and the malarial died massively during influenza pandemics.
4. And then of course there’s tubercular meningitis is caused by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, and finally parasitic causes of meningitis like P. falciparum which is the main cause of malaria.
aggressive
/əˈɡɹɛsɪv/
adjective(of sickness or disease) tending to spread in a rapid manner
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1. The squirrels got aggressive, a hallmark of frustration.
2. Windows updates are notoriously aggressive.
3. 180 days is aggressive.
4. Are men more aggressive?
5. The Taki seasoning is very aggressive.
allergic
/əˈɫɝdʒɪk/
adjectivecaused by or relating to allergy
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1. Lots of people are allergic to it.
2. My eight-year-old daughter is allergic to peanuts.
3. However, certain types of seafood like shellfish can induce allergic reactions.
4. Regular consumption of oranges can also reduce allergic asthma.
5. Only about 2% of kids are allergic to eggs.
anemic
/əˈnimɪk/
adjectiverelating to or suffering from anemia (having decreased number of blood cells circulating the body and carrying oxygen)
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1. Or you're anemic or something.
2. This fruit looks like an anemic strawberry.
3. In anemic patients, the red blood cell count falls catastrophically.
4. - Hm, it's a bit, anemic.
5. Because I was slightly anemic.
asthmatic
/æzˈmætɪk/
adjectiverelating to breathing with a whistling sound
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1. These medications help asthmatics both control and prevent their asthma symptoms.
2. Asthmatic attack, or exacerbation, happens when the airways react to these substances.
3. Asthmatic patients are at higher risks of developing OSA.
4. Are you asthmatic?
5. Many asthmatic children with peanut allergies also have allergies to grass, weeds, cats, dust mites and tree pollen, all of which can trigger asthma attacks.
diabetic
/ˌdaɪəˈbɛtɪk/
adjectiveof or relating to or causing diabetes
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1. So diabetics have lost that normal function.
2. Diabetics can't eat watermelon?
3. When it comes to blood sugar, they have diabetic goodness as well.
4. Diabetics are much more vulnerable to heart disease than healthy people.
5. Diabetics often have extremely poor eating habits.
diseased
/dɪˈzizd/
adjectivecaused or affected by a disease
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1. This government is diseased.
2. It's diseased.
3. The entire organ is diseased.
4. During the procedure, the surgeon will remove bone and diseased cartilage from where your thigh bone and shin bone meet at your knee joint.
5. It's still diseased.
emaciated
/ɪˈmeɪʃiˌeɪtɪd/
adjectivelooking thin, pale, or exhausted due to prolonged period of suffering, anxiety, or starvation
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1. His emaciated body finally breathed its last breath on April, 5th, 1976.
2. He is so emaciated!
3. His mom was like pretty emaciated.
4. Funguses already cover their emaciated bodies, like a warning of approaching death.
5. Funguses already cover their emaciated bodies, like a warning of approaching death.
life-limiting
/lˈaɪflˈɪmɪɾɪŋ/
adjectivedenoting an incurable chronic illness or a medical condition that will eventually lead to patient's death
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malarial
/məˈɫɛɹiəɫ/
adjectiveof or infected by malaria, a chronic disease that is caused by the bite of specific types of mosquito
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1. Step 2: Hope that malarial fevers clear the syphilis.
2. So, the tubercular and the malarial died massively during influenza pandemics.
3. It's at the other end of the spectrum from, for example, the malarial plasmodia.
4. In terms of human evolution, in intensely malarial areas there was a strong Darwinian pressure for the retention of the sickle cell trait.
5. This is one of the classic signs of malarial infection.
nauseous
/ˈnɔʃəs/
adjectivecausing or able to cause nausea
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1. I get nauseous.
2. I feel nauseous.
3. I was always nauseous.
4. The rabbit probably feels nauseous.
5. The person might also feel nauseous.
viral
/ˈvaɪɹəɫ/
adjectiveof, related to, or caused by a virus or viruses
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1. The story went viral.
2. The #fyrefestival and the video went viral immediately.
3. Belle's story went viral.
4. 2010, a photo of pink slime from an alleged McNugget factory goes viral.
5. - Baby videos go viral all the time.
virulent
/ˈvɪɹəɫənt/
adjectiveinfectious; having the ability to cause disease
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1. Born into a Jewish family in 1930, Milk grew up at a time of virulent homophobia.
2. In 1919, a virulent new strain of influenza swept the world.
3. That selects for the most virulent pathogens that are possible.
4. In any case, Yersinia pestis is exceptionally virulent because of its ability to overwhelm the immune system of the body.
5. He was a virulent white supremacist.
notifiable
/nˈoʊɾɪfˌaɪəbəl/
adjective(of a disease or a crime) so chronic or serious that requires official notification and must be reported to the appropriate authorities
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1. Tuberculosis also, by states, municipalities and nations, was made a notifiable disease.
peaky
/pˈiːki/
adjectivelooking pale or being slightly ill
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1. The 11 Pro is way more sort of peaky.
2. Callers said I was understandable, but distorted and peaky.
3. Doesn't look, like it looks like a little peaky tube top.
celiac
/sˈɛlɪˌæk/
adjectiveaffected by or belonging to celiac disease, a serious autoimmune disease and a digestive disorder that is triggered by eating foods that contain gluten
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1. I mentioned celiac because it's autoimmune, but only a minority.
2. Only a few patients actually have celiac.
3. There's people who have celiac sensitivity.
4. You must carry the gene for celiac to get it.
5. People with celiac can't even have heritage sourdough.
symptomatic
/ˌsɪmptəˈmætɪk/
adjectivecharacteristic or indicative of a disease
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1. they're very symptomatic.
2. You should be symptomatic for Alzheimer's.
3. While there’s currently no cure, treatment includes symptomatic management, regular exercise, and mitochondrial cocktail supplements.
4. And the events per group are events of symptomatic COVID.
5. Avoiding mental challenges may be symptomatic of a larger problem.
wasted
/ˈweɪstɪd/
adjectiveweak and thin, especially as a result of old age or an illness
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1. That’s a lot of wasted iron!
2. And that means less wasted concrete!
3. Just having too much wasted replication.
4. My wasted heart will love you.
5. It's a wasted effort.
undernourished
/ˌəndɝˈnɝɪʃt/
adjectivenot adequately fed or nourished therefore in bad health
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1. For some of the groups transitioning to agriculture the variation in their diets declined drastically and some even seem to have been undernourished.
2. Without food that specifically has these elements, cats will be undernourished.
3. They're a roving pride of lions, undernourished and looking for territory.
4. This undernourished pied tamarin monkey was recently brought to the refuge.
5. Many of them are undernourished and weak and will need to be nursed back to health.
unfit
/ənˈfɪt/
adjectiveincapable of doing something due to being ill or not in a good physical condition
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1. Unfit species die out.
2. "Your parents were unfit!"
3. They're unfit.
4. Is this particular individual the unfit mother?
5. I am so unfit.
unhealthy
/ənˈhɛɫθi/
adjectivenot having a good physical or mental condition
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1. The fried bread is unhealthy.
2. And some companies sell unhealthy food.
3. Now back to our list of 8 Signs Your Intestines Are Unhealthy.
4. Processed foods are unhealthy.
5. Not all smoothies are unhealthy, though.
weak
/ˈwik/
adjectivenot physically strong; having little energy or physical strength
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1. Machines were weak.
2. The voiced sound is weaker.
3. Today's word is weak.
4. His father was weak.
5. The old boy's back legs look weak.
run-down
/ˈɹənˈdaʊn/
adjectivefeeling exhausted, unwell, or slightly ill, particularly after an intense physical activity
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1. Here's a run-down of the Hulk's hidden MCU trilogy.
2. iMore has a nice run-down of the top packs in this category.
3. Do you feel tired or run-down during the day?
4. If you're feeling run-down
5. [Mom] Did you and Katie call Parker last night and give him a date run-down?
seasick
/ˈsiˌsɪk/
adjectivefeeling sick or nauseous due to the motion of the ship or boat one is traveling with
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1. You get seasick?
2. I'm seasick.
3. - You've never been seasick before.
4. - I might be seasick. - Noooooo.
5. For the next question we have, "Gotten seasick?"
sick
/ˈsɪk/
adjectivenot in a good and healthy physical or mental state
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1. You cover for them at work while they're on sick leave.
2. Sick beat man!
3. This thing's sick.
4. That place was sick.
5. People got sick.
splitting
/ˈspɫɪtɪŋ/
adjective(of a headache) severe or massive
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1. So in the ordinary case, no splitting, follow the brain.
2. Now that splitting into pieces changes the potential energy for the electron.
3. So where did the splitting go?
4. What determines the splitting of this?
5. The separation undoubtedly caused some splitting of the family’s assets.
hereditary
/hɝˈɛdəˌtɛɹi/
adjective(of a disease or characteristic) able to be passed on to a child through the genes of its parents
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1. [Narrator] Unlike DNA changes to RNA are not hereditary.
2. The condition, hereditary otosclerosis would become progressively worse over Howard’s lifetime.
3. Which disease is not hereditary?
4. But hereditary birthmarks did play a key role in ancient Greece.
5. Liver disease can be hereditary.
genetic
/dʒəˈnɛtɪk/
adjective(of diseases) passed on from one's parents; related to genes
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1. Genetics are a part of it.
2. Another major one is genetics.
3. Genetics play a huge role.
4. Genetics also contribute.
5. Thank genetics for that.
anorexic
/ˌænɝˈɛksɪk/
adjectiveinvolving or suffering from anorexia
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1. You're anorexic.
2. Geoff, are you anorexic?
3. I was anorexic.
4. that's anorexic
5. Anorexic people will often refuse to eat food.
pinched
/ˈpɪntʃt/
adjectiveextremely emaciated, particularly due to illness, lack of food, or exposure to cold
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1. The rollers pinch the tube, so it bends kind of like a pinched straw.
2. People said it was a pinched nerve dah dah dah.
3. If the button hole is located too far up, you get a pinched shape that's extreme but you want this nice horse shoe shape.
sea legs
/sˈiː lˈɛɡz/
nounan individual's ability to walk without stumbling and resist getting seasick while on a moving ship
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