noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
decompression sickness
insure (sth/sb) against loss/damage/theft/sickness etc
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It is wise to insure your property against storm damage.
morning sickness
motion sickness
radiation sickness
sickness benefit
sleeping sickness
travel sickness
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chronic
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Let us turn now to the relationship between the chronic sickness and mortality rates.
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Worst of all was the high incidence of epidemics, chronic sickness , and malnutrition.
■ NOUN
absence
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These risk factors accounted for about one third of the grade differences in sickness absence .
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Conclusion - Large grade differences in sickness absence parallel socioeconomic differences in morbidity and mortality found in other studies.
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The relation between alcohol consumption and sickness absence will be reported elsewhere.
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One estimate puts the cost in terms of sickness absence alone at over £700 million a year.
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For women, there was no clear relation between alcohol consumption and sickness absence .
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Psychosocial factors at work and outside work also predicted rates of sickness absence .
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We actively monitor sickness absence levels and record the amount of time that people are unable to come to work.
allowance
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During the waiting days your pay will consist of the sickness allowance .
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In both cases your gross pay will be as normal, unless you have exhausted the full sickness allowance .
altitude
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Theroux had a deep gash on his face, neckache, altitude sickness and a damaged wrist.
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Dehydration is one of the keys to altitude sickness .
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I am light-headed, perhaps from a mild attack of altitude sickness .
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Last summer altitude sickness ruined one Sierra trip of mine and half-ruined another.
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An expert on altitude sickness says he hasn't got long to live.
benefit
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Insured workers who are off sick are entitled to draw sickness benefit .
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This fund was set up during the 1880s as a means of providing sickness benefit for employees.
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Spending cuts would especially affect public administration and, within the social welfare budget, the level of payments on sickness benefit .
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Temporary appropriations for paying civil servants' wages and unemployment and sickness benefits will have run out by then.
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The most novel approach related to sickness benefit .
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It was decided that state sickness benefit was to be taxed by its abolition!
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From April 1983, the first eight weeks of sickness benefit were to be met by the employer.
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Some items of expenditure like supplementary benefit or sickness benefit are demand-led commitments.
decompression
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For decompression sickness , your dive history is available in graphic detail for hyperbaric specialists to consult.
morning
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No morning sickness , no backache, no obscure cravings.
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One vomiting spell-hangover. Morning sickness chain.
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The bulimia, the morning sickness , her collapsing marriage and her jealousy of Camilla conspired to make her life intolerable.
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No mere morning sickness this, but gripping, round-the-clock, horrible nausea.
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Thalidomide, the drug prescribed in the Fifties for morning sickness , is the most infamous example.
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Well, as Faye told you over lunch, she feels that her morning sickness is beginning to taper off.
motion
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They were useful for treating allergic disorders and also as sedatives and remedies for motion sickness .
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By manipulating how the virtual scene moves with your body movements, we may be able to help people with motion sickness .
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We are investigating the possibility that motion sickness may be a factor in the unpleasantness of transportation.
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They were able to read without the usual motion sickness they frequently get riding in a car.
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In fact, some players report motion sickness .
mountain
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Passang watched for symptoms of mountain sickness .
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Two of their members were suffering from mountain sickness and their high-altitude porters had failed to arrive.
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Altitude or mountain sickness attacks the lungs or brain and can cause seizures or comas.
radiation
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Another 237 people were treated for radiation sickness , some of whom needed bone-marrow transplants to restore their white blood-cell count.
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For some, the visit is a welcome break from medical treatment they're receiving for radiation sickness .
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Many were orphaned by the disaster, others still suffer radiation sickness .
rate
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The sickness rate is well up and is a matter of considerable concern.
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So regional death rates do not predict regional self-reported sickness rates very well.
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Furthermore, since the record is generated on discharge, complications relating to length of stay will disturb calculated sickness rates .
travel
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Travel Bands wrist bands to prevent travel sickness , £6.50.
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Scopolamine is used for travel sickness .
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Recovery from the effects of travel sickness is very rapid.
■ VERB
cause
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Around the world, many cultures believe that any harm done to a dolphin may cause ill-fortune or sickness .
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Trypanosomes, which cause sleeping sickness , keep changing their keys by switching on one gene after another.
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HepA can cause sickness , diarrhoea, jaundice and, in the worst case, liver failure.
suffer
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They suffered severed sickness and diarrhoea.
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People in Wigtown suffered diarrhoea, sickness and mouth ulcers.
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Allitt had written in nursing notes that Liam had suffered violent sickness and diarrhoea.
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Many were orphaned by the disaster, others still suffer radiation sickness .
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They may suffer sickness , vomiting or acute pain, but they do not die.
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Two of their members were suffering from mountain sickness and their high-altitude porters had failed to arrive.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bout of depression/flu/sickness etc
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Occasionally we all suffer from influenza or a bout of sickness, which naturally results in a drop in weight.
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Pablo Fernandez was suddenly stricken by a bout of flu.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Many veterans claim the army has not compensated them for war-related sicknesses.
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Several crew members had to leave due to sickness and exhaustion.
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They said that the murders were a sign of a new, terrible sickness in our society.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And, you can usually arrange sickness or redundancy benefit to cover your monthly repayments, for a small premium each month.
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But it was not sickness , not unpleasant.
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In the meantime the steady trickle of deaths from wounds and sickness continued.
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It was possible to examine sickness absence within an organisation with a single sickness absence policy.
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Last summer altitude sickness ruined one Sierra trip of mine and half-ruined another.
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Make sure you have arranged mortgage Protection Cover and, if possible, insure yourself against sickness , redundancy or accident.
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One estimate puts the cost in terms of sickness absence alone at over £700 million a year.
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The fields there are a source of a lot of sickness , particularly with the pollution.