ailment
/ˈeɪɫmənt/
noun
an illness, often a minor one
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1State television didn't cover Kim Jong-il's ailments.
2Then, in 1618, his ailments worsened.
3No, I have many women's ailments.
4An ailment, best described as burnout.
5You guys know ailments.
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.
syndrome
/ˈsɪnˌdɹoʊm/
noun
a group of medical signs that indicate a person is suffering from a particular disease or mental problem
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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.
acute
/əkˈjut/
adjective
severe in degree; very serious
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1The acute medical therapy is indicated in the exposure.
2How can you cut the blob entirely into acute triangles and stop it from destroying the planet?
3The delusional impact is acute.
4Hepatitis A virus --or HAV, for short-- is almost always acute.
5Risk of injury for big animals is acute.
chronic
/ˈkɹɑnɪk/
adjective
(of an illness) difficult to cure and long-lasting
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1The consequences of chronic sleep deprivation can be truly disastrous.
2And chronic stress degrades the brain.
3Chronic anger slows neurogenesis way down.
4So does chronic illness cause mental health issues?
5Painful emotions only become chronic.
contagious
/kənˈteɪdʒəs/
adjective
(of a disease) transmittable from one person to another through close contact
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1Your energy is contagious.
2A leader's energy is contagious.
3Enthusiasm is contagious!
4Laughter is contagious.
5Enthusiasm is contagious.
breathless
/ˈbɹɛθɫəs/
adjective
unable to breathe easily
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1The future is one breathless ride.
2Take me, so breathless.
3You’re very breathless.
4People are somewhat breathless after the hard questions from-- FRANK MICHELMAN:
5Keep that breathless charm.
dizzy
/ˈdɪzi/
adjective
unable 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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1Are you dizzy?
2Feel dizzy.
3And the astronauts get dangerously dizzy.
4Feeling dizzy yet?
5- Getting dizzy.
fatal
/ˈfeɪtəɫ/
adjective
resulting in death
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1The rapid loss of fluids was fatal.
2An infection was almost inevitably fatal.
3Any break in troop discipline and any gap in the orderly marching formation would be fatal.
4Any break in troop discipline and any gap in the orderly marching formation would be fatal.
5Some forms of skin cancer are fatal.
feverish
/ˈfivɝɪʃ/
adjective
having or caused by a fever
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1She was feverish.
2He's in a cast, his eyes are feverish.
3I was feverish.
4A gentle breeze blew over his feverish skin.
5It 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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1My eyes was swollen.
2My feet were swollen.
3Roscoe's foot is very swollen.
4His eye is swollen.
5My tongue is swollen!
asthma
/ˈæzmə/
noun
a disease that causes shortness of breath and difficulty in breathing
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1Mount Sinai's Asthma app actually discovered asthma triggers from all 50 states.
2Mount Sinai's Asthma app actually discovered asthma triggers from all 50 states.
3Her children have asthma.
4She has asthma.
5One 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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1What do you think about bird flu?
2And 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.
4Humanity's greatest killer was bird flu.
5Dr. Robert Webster, the world's leading authority on bird flu.
Covid-19
/kˈɑːvɪd nˈaɪntiːn/
noun
an 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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1Then in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic closed down clothing factories in China.
2Does COVID-19 go away?
3Will the vaccine cause COVID-19?
4She had COVID-19 back in March.
5Has COVID-19 changed the economic case for meat and dairy?
diarrhea
/ˌdaɪɝˈiə/
noun
a 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?
2They all have diarrhea.
3I used to get diarrhea, pains in my stomach all the time, headaches.
4In one study from a while back, close to 80% of patients had diarrhea prior to their treatment.
5Tomatoes can even prevent diarrhea.
hay fever
/hˈeɪ fˈiːvɚ/
noun
an 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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1Hay fever, a common allergy, is also an autoimmune disorder.
2Plenty of people suffer from hay fever.
3You can get hay fever from things like pollen and dust.
4One in eight children suffer from allergies like hay fever.
5Matt really suffers with hay fever.
HIV
/ˌeɪtʃˌaɪvˈiː/
noun
the virus that causes a very dangerous disease called AIDS, transmitted through blood or sexual activity
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1HIV infections have dropped drastically.
2Nearly 50% of women in parts of South Africa have HIV.
3A fairly famous example is HIV.
4Our organization, mothers2mothers, enlists women with HIV as care providers.
5Each person must know their HIV status.
measles
/ˈmizəɫz/
noun
a contagious disease that causes high fever and small red spots on the body, common in children
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1Cheer up, Measles.
2You’d be surprised, Measles.
3That’s right, Measles.
4Especially for the Childhood Vaccines we're all familiar with, MEASLES, PERTUSSIS, FLU, Et Cetera.
5MMR stands for Measles, Mumps and Rubella.
plague
/ˈpɫeɪɡ/
noun
a dangerous disease spread by rats that causes fever and swellings, often kills if infected
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1Unfortunately, creative differences plagued the movie's long road to a theatrical release.
2Child travel neglect, basically, it plagues a couple of communities.
3Plague is a teacher.
4Religious strife plagued the Roman Empire of the Third Century AD.
5This question has plagued humanity for centuries.
stroke
/ˈstɹoʊk/
noun
a 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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1Strokes are bad.
2One potential complication of AF is stroke.
3And stroke four.
4- Stroking my beard.
5- Stroke my invisible cat. -
blister
/ˈbɫɪstɝ/
noun
a swollen area on the skin filled with liquid, caused by constant rubbing or by burning
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1It causes blisters, pain and inflammation.
2The pace in that building is blistering.
3- Fever blisters is the preferred nomenclature.
4- It just blistered.
5However, blisters are a good sign.
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.
rash
/ˈɹæʃ/
noun
a part of one's skin covered with red spots, which is usually caused by a sickness or an allergic reaction
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1So rashes are fair game.
2Rash, that's one point. -
3Symptoms of atopic dermatitis include rashes, redness, scaling, and occasionally small blisters.
4Almost 20% of people with celiac disease get this rash.
5- I have a rash.
scar
/ˈskɑɹ/
noun
a mark that is left on one's skin after a wound or cut has healed
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1If this necrosis, or tissue death, happens after a sting, permanent scars may remain on a victim's skin.
2COVID will indeed scar a generation of health care workers.
3We all have scars.
4You want scars?
5It scars the face of the sanctuary.
swelling
/ˈswɛɫɪŋ/
noun
an area of one's body that has become unusually larger, caused by an injury or sickness
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1Limiting additional swelling.
2This buildup may cause some swelling.
3Finally, swellings appeared all over his body, here and here.
4Definitely got some swelling here.
5-Without the swelling.
collapse
/kəˈɫæps/
noun
a situation in which a person suddenly falls down or loses consciousness because of tiredness or an illness
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1If faith in our institutions and each other collapses, then the nation collapses.
2He was a grad student in Moscow during the days of Perestroika and collapse of the Soviet Union.
3America's valuable export trade collapsed.
4So, the whole thing collapses.
5The gold standard collapsed.
fatigue
/fəˈtiɡ/
noun
a feeling of extreme tiredness that is usually caused by physical or mental overwork or exercise
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1However, some long-term conditions like respiratory disorders, gastrointestinal problems, and many others can overpower fatigue.
2Now, most people report fatigue.
3Otherwise, your mental exhaustion will cause fatigue.
4Food intolerances, allergies, vitamin deficiencies, and certain medical conditions all can cause fatigue.
5Dehydration causes fatigue.
fracture
/ˈfɹækʃɝ/, /ˈfɹæktʃɝ/
noun
a crack or break in a bone or other hard substance
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1Then the X-Rays showed the hairline fractures.
2He fractured his ribs, backbone, arms, and skull.
3Pressurized fluids fracture rocks.
4These long bones, right above the paw, their called metatarsals, and three of them are fractured.
5Stress fractured the bone.
to bounce back
/bˈaʊns bˈæk/
verb
to regain health after an illness or become successful again after facing difficulties
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1They bounced back in May, June and July.
2But during the warmer interglacial periods, forests bounced back.
3The dough is bouncing back.
4Hopefully bounce back up.
5I bounce back pretty well.
to complain of
/kəmplˈeɪn ʌv/
verb
to state that one feels ill or one's body part is in pain

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to faint
/ˈfeɪnt/
verb
to suddenly lose consciousness from a lack of oxygen in the brain, which is caused by a shock, etc.
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1The doctor fainted on the spot.
2His wife fainted.
3The trail was faint.
4These things are faint.
5- Fainted.
to infect
/ˌɪnˈfɛkt/
verb
to transmit a disease to a person, animal, or plant
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1These are the border cells of your body, lining your organs and mucosa waiting to be infected.
2Measles infects organs like the spleen, the liver, the intestines, and, most importantly, the lungs.
3Flu infects humans.
4In 1918, the Spanish flu infected 500 *million* people worldwide.
5Infecting the whole country, Fast.
addict
/ˈæˌdɪkt/, /əˈdɪkt/
noun
someone who cannot stop taking, using, or smoking a substance
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1I’m addicted to internet personality tests.
2Addicts take drugs to escape their problems.
3They opened free heroin maintenance centers, where addicts would be treated and stabilized.
4Today, over 70% of all heroin addicts in Switzerland receive treatment.
5Addicts are disconnected.
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.
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.
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.
outbreak
/ˈaʊtˌbɹeɪk/
noun
the unexpected start of something terrible, such as a disease or war
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1In Yemen, for instance, a massive outbreak of cholera began in 2016 during a Civil War as the sewage system fell apart.
2During that time, his mother told him folktales and true tales of horror, including her experiences during an outbreak of cholera in 1832.
3So outbreaks are inevitable.
4Nearly two-thirds of rural counties are reporting outbreaks of Covid-19.
5One 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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1Flesh wounds could carry parasites.
2The answer is "Parasite."
3I see parasites all the time.
4Often parasites castrate their hosts.
5Pacific salmon has parasites, so no salmon sushi, sashimi, no spicy salmon, nothing. -
shiver
/ˈʃɪvɝ/
noun
a brief shaking movement of one's body as a result of fear or being cold
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1Shiver me timbers.
2That quote alone sent shivers down the news reporters' spines.
3Or, did one of those electromagnetic recordings also send shivers down your spine?
4Shiver me timbers!
5Shiver me fingers.
worn out
/wˈoːɹn ˈaʊt/
adjective
exhausted because of too much physical work
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1It'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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1But a stuffy nose can ruin your day.
2A stuffy nose serves as a distraction.
3Feeling stuffy?
4Researchers 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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1He chafed at the strict discipline and the lack of freedom for creative thought.
2Many Romans chafed the relationship between Cleopatra and Caesar.
3He chafed at white discrimination.
4Their faces are chafed.
5Hey, I chafe easily.

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