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chronic diseases

chronic diseases is the plural of chronic disease.

Meaning of chronic disease

Noun

chronic disease (plural chronic diseases)

  1. Synonym of chronic illness
    • Refusing the idea that poor whites of the South were racially degenerate or dysgenically mixed, they argued instead that poor whites were suffering from chronic disease, the effects of which were commonly mistaken for degeneracy.2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 96
    Synonyms:
    chronic illness

Questions about chronic diseases

What is chronic diseases the plural of?
Chronic diseases is the plural of chronic disease.

Words near chronic diseases in the dictionary

  1. chronic condition
  2. chronic conditions
  3. chronic Covid
  4. chronic COVID syndrome
  5. chronic disease
  6. chronic diseases
  7. chronic fatigue syndrome
  8. chronic fatigue syndromes
  9. chronic granulomatous disease
  10. chronic granulomatous diseases
  11. chronic illness

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