ailment
/ˈeɪɫmənt/
nounan illness, often a minor one
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1. State television didn't cover Kim Jong-il's ailments.
2. Then, in 1618, his ailments worsened.
3. No, I have many women's ailments.
4. An ailment, best described as burnout.
5. You guys know ailments.
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.
syndrome
/ˈsɪnˌdɹoʊm/
nouna group of medical signs that indicate a person is suffering from a particular disease or mental problem
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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.
acute
/əkˈjut/
adjectivesevere in degree; very serious
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1. The acute medical therapy is indicated in the exposure.
2. How can you cut the blob entirely into acute triangles and stop it from destroying the planet?
3. The delusional impact is acute.
4. Hepatitis A virus --or HAV, for short-- is almost always acute.
5. Risk of injury for big animals is acute.
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.
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.
breathless
/ˈbɹɛθɫəs/
adjectiveunable to breathe easily
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1. The future is one breathless ride.
2. Take me, so breathless.
3. You’re very breathless.
4. People are somewhat breathless after the hard questions from-- FRANK MICHELMAN:
5. Keep that breathless charm.
dizzy
/ˈdɪzi/
adjectiveunable to keep one's balance and feeling as though everything is circling around one, caused by an illness or looking down from a high place
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1. Are you dizzy?
2. Feel dizzy.
3. And the astronauts get dangerously dizzy.
4. Feeling dizzy yet?
5. - Getting dizzy.
fatal
/ˈfeɪtəɫ/
adjectiveresulting in death
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1. The rapid loss of fluids was fatal.
2. An infection was almost inevitably fatal.
3. Any break in troop discipline and any gap in the orderly marching formation would be fatal.
4. Any break in troop discipline and any gap in the orderly marching formation would be fatal.
5. Some forms of skin cancer are fatal.
feverish
/ˈfivɝɪʃ/
adjectivehaving or caused by a fever
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1. She was feverish.
2. He's in a cast, his eyes are feverish.
3. I was feverish.
4. A gentle breeze blew over his feverish skin.
5. It allays a feverish thirst that had parched me for many days.
swollen
/ˈswoʊɫən/
adjective(of a part of the body) unusually large, particularly because of an injury or illness
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1. My eyes was swollen.
2. My feet were swollen.
3. Roscoe's foot is very swollen.
4. His eye is swollen.
5. My tongue is swollen!
asthma
/ˈæzmə/
nouna disease that causes shortness of breath and difficulty in breathing
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1. Mount Sinai's Asthma app actually discovered asthma triggers from all 50 states.
2. Mount Sinai's Asthma app actually discovered asthma triggers from all 50 states.
3. Her children have asthma.
4. She has asthma.
5. One out of four South Bronx children has asthma.
bird flu
noun
a dangerous disease among birds, especially poultry, that can be transmitted to humans and sometimes kill them
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1. What do you think about bird flu?
2. And bird flu strains have been found within these markets.
3. - Just two weeks ago, a fatal strain of bird flu was confirmed in a commercial turkey flock in South Carolina.
4. Humanity's greatest killer was bird flu.
5. Dr. Robert Webster, the world's leading authority on bird flu.
Covid-19
/kˈɑːvɪd nˈaɪntiːn/
nounan infectious disease caused by a type of virus called coronavirus that causes fever, tiredness, a cough, etc., and in some cases can kill, originated in China and later became a pandemic
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1. Then in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic closed down clothing factories in China.
2. Does COVID-19 go away?
3. Will the vaccine cause COVID-19?
4. She had COVID-19 back in March.
5. Has COVID-19 changed the economic case for meat and dairy?
diarrhea
/ˌdaɪɝˈiə/
nouna medical condition in which body waste turns to liquid and comes out frequently
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1. - Can a consultation with a telemedicine doctor cause diarrhea?
2. They all have diarrhea.
3. I used to get diarrhea, pains in my stomach all the time, headaches.
4. In one study from a while back, close to 80% of patients had diarrhea prior to their treatment.
5. Tomatoes can even prevent diarrhea.
hay fever
/hˈeɪ fˈiːvɚ/
nounan illness that causes a runny nose and watery eyes, caused by dust from plants that come into the body through the air
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1. Hay fever, a common allergy, is also an autoimmune disorder.
2. Plenty of people suffer from hay fever.
3. You can get hay fever from things like pollen and dust.
4. One in eight children suffer from allergies like hay fever.
5. Matt really suffers with hay fever.
HIV
/ˌeɪtʃˌaɪvˈiː/
nounthe virus that causes a very dangerous disease called AIDS, transmitted through blood or sexual activity
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1. HIV infections have dropped drastically.
2. Nearly 50% of women in parts of South Africa have HIV.
3. A fairly famous example is HIV.
4. Our organization, mothers2mothers, enlists women with HIV as care providers.
5. Each person must know their HIV status.
measles
/ˈmizəɫz/
nouna contagious disease that causes high fever and small red spots on the body, common in children
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1. Cheer up, Measles.
2. You’d be surprised, Measles.
3. That’s right, Measles.
4. Especially for the Childhood Vaccines we're all familiar with, MEASLES, PERTUSSIS, FLU, Et Cetera.
5. MMR stands for Measles, Mumps and Rubella.
plague
/ˈpɫeɪɡ/
nouna dangerous disease spread by rats that causes fever and swellings, often kills if infected
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1. Unfortunately, creative differences plagued the movie's long road to a theatrical release.
2. Child travel neglect, basically, it plagues a couple of communities.
3. Plague is a teacher.
4. Religious strife plagued the Roman Empire of the Third Century AD.
5. This question has plagued humanity for centuries.
stroke
/ˈstɹoʊk/
nouna dangerous condition in which a person loses consciousness as a result of a blood vessel breaking open or becoming blocked in their brain, which could kill or paralyze a part of their body
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1. Strokes are bad.
2. One potential complication of AF is stroke.
3. And stroke four.
4. - Stroking my beard.
5. - Stroke my invisible cat. -
blister
/ˈbɫɪstɝ/
nouna swollen area on the skin filled with liquid, caused by constant rubbing or by burning
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1. It causes blisters, pain and inflammation.
2. The pace in that building is blistering.
3. - Fever blisters is the preferred nomenclature.
4. - It just blistered.
5. However, blisters are a good sign.
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.
rash
/ˈɹæʃ/
nouna part of one's skin covered with red spots, which is usually caused by a sickness or an allergic reaction
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1. So rashes are fair game.
2. Rash, that's one point. -
3. Symptoms of atopic dermatitis include rashes, redness, scaling, and occasionally small blisters.
4. Almost 20% of people with celiac disease get this rash.
5. - I have a rash.
scar
/ˈskɑɹ/
nouna mark that is left on one's skin after a wound or cut has healed
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1. If this necrosis, or tissue death, happens after a sting, permanent scars may remain on a victim's skin.
2. COVID will indeed scar a generation of health care workers.
3. We all have scars.
4. You want scars?
5. It scars the face of the sanctuary.
swelling
/ˈswɛɫɪŋ/
nounan area of one's body that has become unusually larger, caused by an injury or sickness
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1. Limiting additional swelling.
2. This buildup may cause some swelling.
3. Finally, swellings appeared all over his body, here and here.
4. Definitely got some swelling here.
5. -Without the swelling.
collapse
/kəˈɫæps/
nouna situation in which a person suddenly falls down or loses consciousness because of tiredness or an illness
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1. If faith in our institutions and each other collapses, then the nation collapses.
2. He was a grad student in Moscow during the days of Perestroika and collapse of the Soviet Union.
3. America's valuable export trade collapsed.
4. So, the whole thing collapses.
5. The gold standard collapsed.
fatigue
/fəˈtiɡ/
nouna feeling of extreme tiredness that is usually caused by physical or mental overwork or exercise
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1. However, some long-term conditions like respiratory disorders, gastrointestinal problems, and many others can overpower fatigue.
2. Now, most people report fatigue.
3. Otherwise, your mental exhaustion will cause fatigue.
4. Food intolerances, allergies, vitamin deficiencies, and certain medical conditions all can cause fatigue.
5. Dehydration causes fatigue.
fracture
/ˈfɹækʃɝ/, /ˈfɹæktʃɝ/
nouna crack or break in a bone or other hard substance
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1. Then the X-Rays showed the hairline fractures.
2. He fractured his ribs, backbone, arms, and skull.
3. Pressurized fluids fracture rocks.
4. These long bones, right above the paw, their called metatarsals, and three of them are fractured.
5. Stress fractured the bone.
to bounce back
/bˈaʊns bˈæk/
verbto regain health after an illness or become successful again after facing difficulties
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1. They bounced back in May, June and July.
2. But during the warmer interglacial periods, forests bounced back.
3. The dough is bouncing back.
4. Hopefully bounce back up.
5. I bounce back pretty well.
to complain of
/kəmplˈeɪn ʌv/
verbto state that one feels ill or one's body part is in pain
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to faint
/ˈfeɪnt/
verbto suddenly lose consciousness from a lack of oxygen in the brain, which is caused by a shock, etc.
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1. The doctor fainted on the spot.
2. His wife fainted.
3. The trail was faint.
4. These things are faint.
5. - Fainted.
to infect
/ˌɪnˈfɛkt/
verbto transmit a disease to a person, animal, or plant
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1. These are the border cells of your body, lining your organs and mucosa waiting to be infected.
2. Measles infects organs like the spleen, the liver, the intestines, and, most importantly, the lungs.
3. Flu infects humans.
4. In 1918, the Spanish flu infected 500 *million* people worldwide.
5. Infecting the whole country, Fast.
addict
/ˈæˌdɪkt/, /əˈdɪkt/
nounsomeone who cannot stop taking, using, or smoking a substance
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1. I’m addicted to internet personality tests.
2. Addicts take drugs to escape their problems.
3. They opened free heroin maintenance centers, where addicts would be treated and stabilized.
4. Today, over 70% of all heroin addicts in Switzerland receive treatment.
5. Addicts are disconnected.
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.
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.
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.
outbreak
/ˈaʊtˌbɹeɪk/
nounthe unexpected start of something terrible, such as a disease or war
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1. In Yemen, for instance, a massive outbreak of cholera began in 2016 during a Civil War as the sewage system fell apart.
2. During that time, his mother told him folktales and true tales of horror, including her experiences during an outbreak of cholera in 1832.
3. So outbreaks are inevitable.
4. Nearly two-thirds of rural counties are reporting outbreaks of Covid-19.
5. One month and three month post outbreak, things recovered.
parasite
/ˈpɛɹəˌsaɪt/
noun(biology) a small organism that lives on or inside another organism, called a host, and is dependent on it for nutrition and growth
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1. Flesh wounds could carry parasites.
2. The answer is "Parasite."
3. I see parasites all the time.
4. Often parasites castrate their hosts.
5. Pacific salmon has parasites, so no salmon sushi, sashimi, no spicy salmon, nothing. -
shiver
/ˈʃɪvɝ/
nouna brief shaking movement of one's body as a result of fear or being cold
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1. Shiver me timbers.
2. That quote alone sent shivers down the news reporters' spines.
3. Or, did one of those electromagnetic recordings also send shivers down your spine?
4. Shiver me timbers!
5. Shiver me fingers.
worn out
/wˈoːɹn ˈaʊt/
adjectiveexhausted because of too much physical work
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1. It's Worn Out.
stuffy
/ˈstəfi/
adjective*** if you have a stuffy nose, your nose is blocked because you have a cold
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1. But a stuffy nose can ruin your day.
2. A stuffy nose serves as a distraction.
3. Feeling stuffy?
4. Researchers have examined the effects of hot water, cold water and soup on a stuffy nose.
5. - It's stuffy in here.
to chafe
/ˈtʃeɪf/
verb(of a body part) to become sore or irritated due to being rubbed against something
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1. He chafed at the strict discipline and the lack of freedom for creative thought.
2. Many Romans chafed the relationship between Cleopatra and Caesar.
3. He chafed at white discrimination.
4. Their faces are chafed.
5. Hey, I chafe easily.