What's the difference between ailment and ill?

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.

Ill


Definition:

  • (a.) Contrary to good, in a physical sense; contrary or opposed to advantage, happiness, etc.; bad; evil; unfortunate; disagreeable; unfavorable.
  • (a.) Contrary to good, in a moral sense; evil; wicked; wrong; iniquitious; naughtly; bad; improper.
  • (a.) Sick; indisposed; unwell; diseased; disordered; as, ill of a fever.
  • (a.) Not according with rule, fitness, or propriety; incorrect; rude; unpolished; inelegant.
  • (n.) Whatever annoys or impairs happiness, or prevents success; evil of any kind; misfortune; calamity; disease; pain; as, the ills of humanity.
  • (n.) Whatever is contrary to good, in a moral sense; wickedness; depravity; iniquity; wrong; evil.
  • (adv.) In a ill manner; badly; weakly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
  • (2) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
  • (3) The patients should have received treatment for at least seven days and they should not be "ill".
  • (4) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
  • (5) Patients were chronically ill homosexual men with multiple systemic opportunistic infections.
  • (6) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
  • (7) However, survival was closely related to the severity of the illness at the time of randomization and was not altered by shunting.
  • (8) Confidence is the major prerequisite for a doctor to be able to help his seriously ill patient.
  • (9) Another important factor, however, seems to be that patients, their families, doctors and employers estimate capacity of performance on account of the specific illness, thus calling for intensified efforts toward rehabilitation.
  • (10) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
  • (11) Several dimensions of the outcome of 86 schizophrenic patients were recorded 1 year after discharge from inpatient index-treatment to complete a prospective study concerning the course of illness (rehospitalization, symptoms, employment and social contacts).
  • (12) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
  • (13) In South Africa, health risks associated with exposure to toxic waste sites need to be viewed in the context of current community health concerns, competing causes of disease and ill-health, and the relative lack of knowledge about environmental contamination and associated health effects.
  • (14) The move comes as a poll found that 74% of people want doctors to be allowed to help terminally ill people end their lives.
  • (15) The start of clinical illness was the 5th month of life.
  • (16) The most difficult thing I've dealt with at work is ... the terminal illness of a valued colleague.
  • (17) Bipolar affective illness were more frequent in the families of bipolar than unipolar probands.
  • (18) This paper describes the demographic, clinical, and psychosocial characteristics of a sample of chronically mentally ill clients at a large comprehensive community mental health center.
  • (19) Cholecystectomy provided successful treatment in three of the four patients but the fourth was too ill to undergo an operation; in general, definitive treatment is cholecystectomy, together with excision of the fistulous tract if this takes a direct path through the abdominal wall from the gallbladder, or curettage if the course is devious.
  • (20) Whenever you are ill and a medicine is prescribed for you and you take the medicine until balance is achieved in you and then you put that medicine down.” Farrakhan does not dismiss the doctrine of the past, but believes it is no longer appropriate for the present.

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