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chronic illness

chronic illness noun: an illness that is persistent, usually with long-term effects.

Noun

chronic illness (countable and uncountable, plural chronic illnesses)

  1. An illness that is persistent, usually with long-term effects.
    • Moreover, within the nonailing families, the doctor's care index across the three plan- types is quite similar, while in the families with chronic illness it is substantially higher within the provider plans than in the other two types.1972, Milton Irwin Roemer, Health Insurance Effects, page 37
    • Currently used methods to determine glycemia have certain disadvantages, including cost, heavy labor involvement, and storage problems. Determination of serum fructosamine levels, on the other hand, offers several potential advantages over these current measures. Our goal was to evaluate the...1988, H Negoro, JE Morley, MJ Rosenthal, “Utility of serum fructosamine as a measure of glycemia in young and old diabetic and non-diabetic subjects”, in Am J Med, volume 85, number 3, pages 360–364

Examples of chronic illness in a sentence

  • Like someone who'd learned how best to cope with chronic illness, he never allowed himself to think of his paranoia as an aspect of self.2004, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition, →ISBN:
  • Sullivan is a white, bisexual, ambiamorous, able-bodied, cisgender woman with a chronic illness.2022 July 11, “About the contributors”, in Michelle D. Vaughan, Theodore R. Burnes, editors, The Handbook of Consensual Non-Monogamy...

Synonyms of chronic illness

Forms of chronic illness

pluralchronic illnesses

Questions about chronic illness

What does chronic illness mean?
Chronic illness means an illness that is persistent, usually with long-term effects.
How do you use chronic illness in a sentence?
Like someone who'd learned how best to cope with chronic illness, he never allowed himself to think of his paranoia as an aspect of self.
What part of speech is chronic illness?
Chronic illness is a noun.
What is the plural of chronic illness?
The plural of chronic illness is chronic illnesses.

Words near chronic illness in the dictionary

  1. chronic diseases
  2. chronic fatigue syndrome
  3. chronic fatigue syndromes
  4. chronic granulomatous disease
  5. chronic granulomatous diseases
  6. chronic illness
  7. chronic illnesses
  8. chronic Lyme
  9. chronic Lyme disease
  10. chronic myeloid leukemia
  11. chronic myeloid leukemias

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