(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.
Plague
Definition:
(n.) That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.
(n.) An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague.
(v. t.) To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind.
(v. t.) Fig.: To vex; to tease; to harass.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, uncloned NJ12508 stock virus killed 1 of 24 hens and FL27716 stock virus killed 4 of 24 hens, and neither produced the complete spectrum of lesions associated with fowl plague.
(2) The Semliki Forest virus spike subunit E2, a membrane-spanning protein, was transported to the plasma membrane in BHK cells after its carboxy terminus, including the intramembranous and cytoplasmic portions, was replaced by respective fragments of either the vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein or the fowl plague virus hemagglutinin.
(3) Thus, has been shown a leading role of transmission of plague microbe by fleas in the maintenance of natural nidality of this zoonosis.
(4) The adsorption capacity of microgranulated polyacrylamide magnetic immunosorbents has been studied by the method of quantitative immunofluorescence as applied to the causative agents of plague, cholera, and melioidosis.
(5) Processing of plague plasminogen activator (p36 to p33), responsible for hydrolysis of Yops, required 2 h. Avirulence of mutants with inserted Mu dl1 (Apr lac) in yopE was verified and shown to occur independently of introduced fusion-dependent peptides.
(6) Their creation in 2006 marked a turning point in stem cell research , because iPS cells suffer from none of the ethical issues that plague embryonic stem cells.
(7) Like domestic animals, the latter died of hunger probably, any corpse or carcass being considered as plague victims.
(8) Attention is focused on the Railways' campaigns against malaria, plague and infectious diseases.
(9) He is an expert on the public health problems that plague El Paso and the other cities along the international border, all of which are exacerbated by abject poverty and a burgeoning population.
(10) Hollowing out legacy media’s revenues while using its content, “ digital colonialism ” and issues of censorship have plagued the company in 2016.
(11) Plagued by prison riots, IRA breakouts, illegal deportations, verdicts that found him in contempt of court, and over-hasty legislation on dogs, he acquired a reputation – as home secretaries often do – for being accident-prone.
(12) In the natural foci of plague and tularemia, as well as on the territories outside such foci, the causative agents of intestinal yersiniosis, pseudotuberculosis, salmonellosis, erysipeloid, staphylococci and streptococci, arena- and arboviruses have been isolated from the rodents and ectoparasites under study.
(13) The infection, confirmed by viral culture, was produced by Dutch strain (Hav 1 Neq 1) of fowl plague virus.
(14) The lytic activity of plague phage II, serovar 3, with respect to 1,800 bacterial strains has been studied: 760 Yersinia pestis strains, 262 Y. pseudotuberculosis strains, 252 Y. enterocolitica strains, 166 Escherichia coli strains, 90 Shigella strains and 270 strains of other species.
(15) Scottish Natural Heritage is exterminating them in the Outer Hebrides not because there is a plague of hedgehogs there but to protect the nests of the wading birds whose eggs and chicks a few escaped pet hedgehogs having been eating.
(16) The sera from plague patients recognized Y. pestis and Y. enterocolitica antigens ranging from 15 to 72 kilodaltons (kDa), whereas sera from immunized subjects recognized four antigenic components in Y. pestis ranging from 17 to 64 kDa and five antigens in Y. enterocolitica ranging from 16 to 68 kDa.
(17) But the project has been plagued by cost problems since it was first mooted under the last Labour government.
(18) Mourinho’s interest in Gomes and Jõao Mário suggests Bastian Schweinsteiger, who has suffered an injury-plagued first season at United and who is 32 in August, may be under threat.
(19) You’ve plagued her life and the life of her family.” Maitlis was not in court for the sentencing.
(20) In South Sudan, where civil war broke out a year ago, 1.5 million people are severely food insecure, while the sectarian violence that has plagued CAR since March has left a quarter of the population – more than 1 million people – displaced within its borders or in neighbouring countries.