noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a childhood illness/disease
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measles and other common childhood illnesses
a devastating disease/illness
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Cheaper medicines are needed to fight Aids and other devastating diseases.
a serious injury/illness
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The driver was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
a severe injury/illness
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She had suffered severe head injuries.
fatal accident/illness/injury etc
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a fatal climbing accident
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If it is not treated correctly, the condition can prove fatal be fatal .
incurable disease/illness/condition
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She has a rare, incurable disease.
long illness
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She’s recovering from a long illness .
mental illness
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The centre provides help for people suffering from mental illness.
minor injury/illness/operation etc (= one that is not very serious or dangerous )
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He escaped with only minor injuries.
psychosomatic illness/symptoms/disorder etc
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Children are just as susceptible to psychosomatic conditions as adults.
the stigma of alcoholism/mental illness etc
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The stigma of alcoholism makes it difficult to treat.
waterborne disease/illness etc
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waterborne diseases such as cholera
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
acute
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However, unless an accident or acute illness was associated with onset, memory problems are likely to confuse the result.
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No answers could mitigate the suffering of victims as encompassed by the poliovirus as she was in the acute stages of illness .
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Phenothiazine treatment will be required for the patient with an acute schizophrenic illness .
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Young physicians, trained in medical school according to an acute illness model, found Carville an unusual place.
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The oral intake of complex carbohydrates is often restricted in patients with an acute diarrhoeal illness .
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Let us look at an example of acute illness that would naturally resolve in time.
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If you have built up some experience using the remedies then you will find the 30 an excellent potency for acute illness .
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The more vigorous and acute the illness is the quicker things change.
chronic
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Such elders may have given positive meaning to experiences of anxiety, poverty, chronic illness , multiple losses and death.
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You can need long-term care because of a disabling accident or a chronic illness .
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Older people can quickly become dispirited and depressed by chronic illness .
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Difficulty adapting to a chronic illness 2.
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They must remember that anorexia nervosa is often a chronic illness .
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Marijuana is said to alleviate painful side effects of treatment for some chronic illnesses .
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The annual report of the General Household Survey provides information on the distribution of chronic illness by socio-economic group.
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Healthy people can contract necrotizing fasciitis, but people with chronic illnesses or open wounds are more susceptible.
depressive
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A massive 3,324, working days were lost because of depressive illnesses between and in Northern Ireland alone.
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Many young people are struggling with a depressive illness that requires medical treatment.
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He said Spanswick's wife had left him and he was suffering from a depressive illness .
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Defining rigorously what constitutes a clinically significant depressive illness is problematic, regardless of the age range under consideration.
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Many are suffering from severe depressive illnesses , often with persecutory ideas or delusions.
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Some examples of the kinds of events and difficulties which provoked depressive illnesses in the sample are given in the Appendix.
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While a number of depressive illnesses treated by psychiatrists seem to have no link with environmental stress, many more do.
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They did not have a higher rate of manic depressive illness or anxiety neurosis.
fatal
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A third illustration is asbestos manufacture, which is implicated in fatal illness amongst employees and others.
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It is standard medical practice here not to tell the patient about potentially fatal illnesses , especially cancer.
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It also causes a fatal Aids-like illness in some species of monkey.
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It was while he was besieging that town that the king contracted a fatal illness .
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The doctor missed his other, fatal , illness .
long
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Occasionally a person will suffer from a long and unpleasant illness like glandular fever, but this is rare.
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The patient described by Boustany etal had a cytochrome c oxidase deficiency and a long illness before she eventually died of peritonitis.
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In middle age he has experienced a breakdown, an identity crisis, which followed a long illness and an operation.
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I have the same new-worldliness of some one who emerges to sunlight after a long illness in a darkened room.
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Next home was David Lodge in 27 mins. 23 which was a promising effort following a long lay-off due to illness .
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Anorexia Nervosa is a long term illness and regular follow-up appointments are necessary.
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She felt like a convalescent after a long and dangerous illness , her strength returning, her enthusiasm for life rekindled.
major
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Regions ought to be looking to the future and planning the replacement of major mental illness hospitals.
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The experience of companies using case management for major illnesses confirms his view.
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Aromatherapy, as it is more usually practised, is about prevention of major illness and the symptomatic treatment of minor ailments.
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Soon, Michael would be diagnosed with schizophrenia, the most chronic and disabling of the major mental illnesses .
mental
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Today madness is called mental illness .
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Popular magazines now broach the subject of mental illness , while the government is encouraging research into mental health.
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Clinical and counselling psychologists do not deal only with mental illness .
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A 35-year-old lawyer faces financial ruin resulting from a serious mental illness .
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Patients with mental illness are particularly vulnerable.
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Stephenson, it was soon discovered, was suffering from mental illness .
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He had a history of mental illness .
minor
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Such research would be helped by the development of valid, reliable instruments to measure quality of life in common minor illnesses .
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By fall the disease, first thought a minor illness , was an epidemic.
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Absenteeism, recurrent minor illnesses , accidents at home and at work and disturbed relationships with colleagues are all commonplace.
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There are many people who simply can not afford to run to the doctor every time they have a minor illness .
other
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Pegged out: dental problems may be a symptom of other illness in the body, above.
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Headache may be on its own or the forerunner of other complaints; it accompanies almost all other illnesses .
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Few other paediatric illnesses are as gratifying to diagnose and as uniformly responsive to treatment.
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They know that other unhappy things can happen to people like road accidents or other illnesses .
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It wasn't like any other sickening or illness she had known.
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The cost of myocardial infarction and other cardiac illness is high and is in part the result of vocational disability.
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You could be at risk of heart disease or other stress-related illness .
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Connections have been made with, among other illnesses , skin rashes, asthma, heart disease, backache and cancer.
physical
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The medical staff would like to know if you suffer from any physical disability or illness such as asthma, diabetes or epilepsy.
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Examples of such harm could include physical or mental illness or loss of salary.
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They need the same support and information they would get in a case of physical illness .
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Drinking is seen as leading to a physical and psychological illness .
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Such feelings almost inevitably lead to physical illness .
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The mind and emotions are involved as well as the body and any physical symptoms of illness that may be present.
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High achievers report less physical illness and spend less time discussing their ailments.
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There was then, as there still is today, some evidence of significant mental and physical illness among women in prison.
psychiatric
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Suicide Although suicide is not, in itself, a psychiatric illness it may be taken as suggestive of impaired mental health.
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But why does that prove that the lousy conduct is a psychiatric illness ?
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The differential diagnosis includes both primary psychiatric illness and a wide range of organic acute brain syndromes, including substance abuse.
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The third group includes patients who mutilate themselves, usually in the context of a serious psychiatric illness .
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Behaviour in patients with complex partial seizures is usually more repetitive and stereotyped than in psychiatric illness .
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It results from the attempt to provide relief from psychiatric illnesses and has only recently begun to be recognised.
psychosomatic
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On the other hand, if we are under-stressed we will become lethargic and tired and psychosomatic illnesses could occur.
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Here is the basic pattern Of the engram which will contain the chronic psychosomatic illness in any patient.
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The full range of symptoms attributed to psychosomatic illness are shown in Table 1.
respiratory
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The decision follows years of anxiety about the high levels of respiratory illnesses in the area.
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Effects have included widespread respiratory illnesses and the closure of airports due to poor visibility.
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The association between length of gestation and respiratory illness was greatest for symptoms of wheeze most days.
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About 55 percent of schoolchildren suffer health problems; respiratory illnesses are particularly prevalent.
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Immaturity seems to play an important part in the subsequent development of respiratory illness in childhood.
serious
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Following a serious illness in 1744 she came to regard herself as sinful.
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This is why the germs seldom cause serious illnesses .
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She had had no serious illnesses in the past and had never been in hospital.
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Therefore, the detection of respiratory alkalosis may represent an important diagnostic clue to more serious illness .
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It can cope with a cold, fight off a serious illness and with time, even mend a broken bone.
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But no complaints: up to now, I have never had a serious illness .
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That is something that needs to be said, as he is very popular and has just recovered from a serious illness .
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Lengths of stay are being cut dramatically for just about every serious medical illness and surgical procedure.
severe
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The designer's close encounter of severe illness had a profound influence on his scheme.
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When it erupts at the wrong moment, it can signal severe illness .
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People whose disabilities begin with severe illness or injury find themselves in medical hands whether they like it or not.
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Soon thereafter Latimer falls into a severe illness and, after a time of unconsciousness, he wakes.
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The most likely way in which a booking contract may be frustrated is through severe illness on the part of the guest.
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The denial rate is high among people with severe mental illnesses .
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And people suffering from a severe injury or illness usually need to regain weight.
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Many are suffering from severe depressive illnesses , often with persecutory ideas or delusions.
short
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After a short illness in 1909 she died.
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She died 16 January 1918 in Sidmouth, after a short illness .
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This confinement apparently affected his health and, after a short illness , he died suddenly at the museum 28 May 1917.
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He died at his family's Wiltshire home after a short illness .
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He died, unexpectedly, after a short illness aged only 39 whilst staying at the Phoenix Hotel in Taunton.
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He died after a very short and sudden illness in June 1986.
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He died in Feltham, Middlesex, 21 August 1869 after a short illness .
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His service was itself cut short by illness .
terminal
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Charles took on Diana's mantle speaking on terminal illness , while she prepared to tread the world stage.
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Her terrible, inexplicable terminal illness .
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How would you feel, say, if you had an incurable disease, or a terminal illness ?
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Being somewhat overweight is not a serious health problem, and obesity is not a terminal illness .
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Ideally, some one with a terminal illness should at least have the right to work part-time as long as they are able.
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We feel like a patient with a possible terminal illness that no one will tell the results of the tests.
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At present, patients are prevented from receiving the benefit for the first six months of a terminal illness .
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Patient E16 had only been in hospital once, three years before his terminal illness .
■ VERB
cause
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Stress and tension are implicated in causing illness , and I believe that much modern health propaganda simply adds to that problem.
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This is why the germs seldom cause serious illnesses .
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In other words, poverty can cause illness directly and indirectly, and vice-versa.
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Tainted meat and poultry cause thousands of illnesses and hundreds of deaths each year.
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Even the nursery's pet rabbit is being tested as a possible carrier of the organism that causes the illness .
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Often this blocks a pulmonary artery, causing serious illness or death.
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Diverse ways of coping with the stress caused by illness will be identified and any links with self-esteem investigated.
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Primary teachers who chat to a class depleted by flu and colds about what causes such illnesses are actually covering the curriculum.
cope
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Now Peter's family can get on with looking after him and coping with his illness without worrying about losing their home.
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Relatives have to cope with mental illness that so often changes the personality of their loved one.
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Health professionals, particularly doctors, find particular difficulty in coping with a disabling illness in adult life.
diagnose
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In claiming to diagnose and treat this illness doctors can do more harm than good.
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Two years after her second child was born her husband was diagnosed with a terminal illness .
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All attempts by my own doctor and the company doctor to diagnose my illness failed.
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Brave Gail Devers was suffering from Graves Disease but it took doctors two years to diagnose the crippling thyroid illness .
die
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The water in Haworth was bad, so many children died from illness .
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I was recently at the funeral of a friend, who had died after a prolonged illness from cancer.
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Mr Shrigley said two of the women had died from the serious illnesses for which they had been admitted to the hospital.
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All this had changed when she was thirteen and her five-year-old sister had died of a sudden illness .
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Then their five year old daughter Sarah tragically died after contracting the illness .
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Eight have had heart conditions and two have died of illness while in office.
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I also heard that my parents both died of an illness only a year after their wedding.
prevent
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They were much more concerned about efforts to prevent illness , and to improve the quality of life of people incurably ill.
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With no accountability for the consequences of their marketing, these industries have no incentive to prevent costly illness .
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They promote health and help prevent illness in the first place.
recover
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And in our psychiatric rehabilitation centres for men and women of all ages recovering from mental illness .
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So they recover faster from illnesses .
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However, the long-term outlook for reproductive function is poor in patients who conceive before they have fully recovered from their illness .
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That is something that needs to be said, as he is very popular and has just recovered from a serious illness .
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He had never completely recovered from the serious illness he had had when he first arrived.
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All assumed then and indeed until two days ago that Chapman was recovering from his illness .
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These may be helpful when recovering from an illness or if you fear your normal diet is lacking.
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Shah Jehan had now recovered from his illness and was able to move to Agra and join in the victory celebrations.
relate
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Surprise, surprise, 60-70 % of the population suffers some form of related illnesses from this toxic cocktail environment.
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Massery said about $ 3 million comes from the estates of people who died from smoking-#related illnesses .
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About 3,400,000 people, including 1,260,000 children, are suffering from fallout-#related illnesses .
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Depression in the twilight years is usually related to chronic illness , which often can have a major impact on lifestyle.
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About 50,000 pensioners die every year due to cold-\#related illnesses and many others need hospital treatment.
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Each new ache or pain is not necessarily related to the illness .
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The findings come when, looking worldwide, deaths from tobacco related illnesses are increasing.
suffer
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In the closing years of his life he suffered serious illness .
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She has never gone hungry, suffered horrible illness or seen some one she loves die.
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Almost certainly if you were suffering from such an illness you would have other symptoms to indicate that you were unwell.
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He suffered several illnesses while president, although he continued to function adequately.
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He said Spanswick's wife had left him and he was suffering from a depressive illness .
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There is also no dispute that du Pont suffers from mental illness , as even the prosecution has acknowledged.
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Read in studio More than eighty staff at a supermarket have been sent home suffering from a mystery illness .
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Many are suffering from severe depressive illnesses , often with persecutory ideas or delusions.
treat
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A qualified nurse is available to treat injuries and general illnesses and to advise on general health matters.
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But his countrymen did not treat his illness as a joke.
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The legislation would require corporate health plans to treat mental illnesses the same as physical ailments.
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Last year 110,000 people died and 254,000 were treated for smoking related illnesses , taking up 9,473 hospital beds every day.
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Think about psychological counseling, too, to help separate the pain from the fear response to the pain. Treat illness .
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In treating acute illnesses there are only two outcomes to giving the wrong low potency remedy.
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The lawsuit seeks reimbursement for costs of treating people with tobacco-related illnesses .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
plead ignorance/illness/insanity etc
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As to his reference to rugby league, I plead ignorance and will not interfere with private griefs.
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Galileo pleaded ignorance of any such document and promised to produce that signed by Bellarrnine in 1616.
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He attempted to plead insanity, but did it so effectively that they concluded he must be sane.
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In Seville he had often pleaded ignorance over some of the expressions she used.
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The next day, she stayed home from work, something she rarely did, pleading illness.
wasting disease/illness
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A preacher, victim of a wasting illness, would refer in the pulpit to his forthcoming demise without shocking his congregation.
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Children have been born deformed and there are fears of genetic defects; many adults are suffering from wasting diseases.
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She will host the surprise get-together tomorrow as a thank you to the victims of a fatal muscle wasting disease.
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There is not much point in weighing less but looking as if you are suffering from some wasting disease.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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80% of patients now recover completely from this illness and are able to lead perfectly normal lives.
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Doctors believe he may have contracted the illness while he was in Africa.
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mental illness
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Minor illnesses such as colds are usually best left to get better by themselves.
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Most childhood illnesses can now be easily prevented.
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People are often too embarrassed to admit that they have suffered from any form of mental illness .
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She died yesterday after a long illness .
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Should doctors always tell patients that they have terminal illnesses such as cancer?
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You are allowed time off work only in cases of serious illness or bereavement.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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About 30 percent of people with a mental illness also are drug or alcohol abusers, the audit said.
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Experiments involve a spurious association between the novel food and the illness which is usually induced chemically or by X-rays.
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He himself was thin and pale from illness , and was lying on the bed, wrapped in an old coat.
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His preparation to be a deacon was disturbed by a death and by mental illness .
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Most illnesses and infections are easier to treat if they are diagnosed early.
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Our hospitals would be empty if we tried to discriminate between self-induced or even partially self-induced illnesses, and naturally developed diseases.
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People whose disabilities begin with severe illness or injury find themselves in medical hands whether they like it or not.