(n.) The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief.
(n.) The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or grief.
Example Sentences:
(1) It afflicted 312,000 people and claimed 3200 lives.
(2) Similar tensions afflict the US political scene, where anti-immigrant and anti-trade rhetoric have been prominent from the start of the current presidential election round.
(3) The treatment of the handicapped is discussed in the light of the alterations by which they are most commonly afflicted.
(4) However, we very often noted certain characteristics of personality structure and social attitude in the patients afflicted with the disease.
(5) A child afflicted with atopic dermatitis developed a Kaposi-Juliusberg's syndrome.
(6) By comparison, our patient was afflicted at a considerably older age.
(7) Above all, MPs should vote to stop needless misery for families afflicted by this rare but terrible disorder.
(8) A significant part of his work on surgery consists of early descriptions of neurosurgical diagnosis and treatment, including the surgical treatment of head injuries and skull fractures, spinal injuries and dislocations, hydrocephalus and subdural effusions, headache, and many other medical afflictions.
(9) A total of 65 students and one female teacher were afflicted with an unusual illness following alleged inhalation of a 'gas' in the school.
(10) Caucasians were almost exclusively afflicted by this form of cancer (93% of this series).
(11) Of those who died before the age of 83, 11 per cent were afflicted with dementia, with a further 4 per cent in the early stages, and 17 per cent had other mental problems.
(12) The life within a family of a Rett syndrome child is usually in a constant state of changing emotion due to the overwhelming responsibility of caring for the afflicted child and meeting the needs of the remaining family.
(13) A combination of techniques is necessary to diagnose, and both surgical and medical approaches are needed to treat this often distressingly persistent affliction.
(14) Glomerulonephritis caused end-stage renal disease in Navajos at a rate at least 1.8 times that in US whites and afflicted a much younger population.
(15) The observation of a young north african afflicted with a tic disorder suggests an underlying meaning in the apparently confused motoric discharges, thanks to psychodrama and to ethnopsychoanalytic consultations with the family.
(16) None of those concerns, though, afflicted Jeremy Darroch, the chief executive of BSkyB, who emailed Sky News staff telling them the compromise was a "good outcome" that would maintain "long-term continuity".
(17) Using brains of English setter dogs afflicted with a form of this disorder, the autofluorescent storage granules have been isolated and subjected to extraction with chloroform-methanol.
(18) Other afflictions, such as broncho-pulmonary cancer, are beginning to cause problems.
(19) Physical medicine and rehabilitation measures are important components of the challenging treatment of patients of all age groups who are afflicted with severe arthritis.
(20) Since 1985, we have provided coordinated DNA-based and cytogenetic prenatal analysis for couples at risk for offspring afflicted with the fragile X [fra(X)] syndrome.
Ailment
Definition:
(n.) Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases.
Example Sentences:
(1) Herbalists in Baja California Norte, Mexico, were interviewed to determine the ailments and diseases most frequently treated with 22 commonly used medicinal plants.
(2) Le Dantec Hospital from January 1978 to June 1986 - shows the progression of this ailment, which remains rare (0.85% of admissions - 5 cases per year).
(3) However, after her diagnosis, it became my occupation to know everything about her ailment because I was her caregiver during her excruciating decline.
(4) Based on a quantitative analysis of sputum cultures, pathogenic bacteria in respiratory ailments isolated in our laboratory during 1984 to 1986 were classified and analyzed.
(5) The overriding common features of these ailments are the gender of their sufferers and the behavioral symptoms they exhibit.
(6) Muchhal, a professional singer who has worked on major Bollywood hits, has raised more than 37m rupees (£400,000) to save the lives of more than 550 children with heart ailments.
(7) Consistent with these measures, derived from self-reported data, physician-diagnosed measures also indicate a greater vulnerability of unemployed individuals to serious physical ailments such as heart trouble, pain in heart and chest, high blood pressure, spells of faint-dizziness, bone-joint problems and hypertension.
(8) The hypothesis tested was that cognitive factors in the generation of stress, namely perceived coping incapacity (PCI), relate to the extent of psychosomatic ailments.
(9) The observed group consisted of 20 women of age between 18 and 35 years treated because of acute hepatitis without coexisting diseases including gynecological ailments.
(10) When several diagnostic procedures are performed on a patient, the probability of his having or not having a specific ailment will change as the result of each procedure is known.
(11) Congestive cardiomyopathy accounted for 16 cases (24.3%) and diabetes mellitus unassociated with other ailments for another 6 cases (9.1%).
(12) Cerebral ailments characterized by attacks usually manifest themselves within one year after the accident.
(13) Furthermore, Miller had different ailments during the regular season and the Seahawks passing offense was inclined towards their receivers rather than the tight end position.
(14) But while Britain has left intensive care, we still need to secure the recovery – and make sure we continue to treat the ailments that brought us low in the first place."
(15) Swimmers experienced respiratory ailments most frequently, followed by gastrointestinal, eye, ear, skin, and allergenic symptoms, respectively.
(16) Finally, the case history of a patient with this ailment, treated by Mollin's light arches technique, is displayed.
(17) Accordingly, although the techniques of molecular biology are invaluable in generating new understanding of the mechanisms underlying drug specificity, they may prove disappointing as applied to actually tailoring specific drugs for the treatment of such major human ailments as hypertension or schizophrenia.
(18) Language ailment is then rarely isolated but it belongs to a global disorganizing of cerebral functions.
(19) Sometimes having a diagnosis for an ailment makes the symptoms much more palatable.
(20) In 17 towns in 11 countries across Europe, 10 questions on health were asked as part of a general standardized interview regarding self-perceived global and relative health, quality of life, chronic diseases, use of medicine and specific ailments.