What's the difference between sick and unwell?

Sick


Definition:

  • (superl.) Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness.
  • (superl.) Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.
  • (superl.) Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery.
  • (superl.) Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.
  • (n.) Sickness.
  • (v. i.) To fall sick; to sicken.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Based on our results, we propose the following hypotheses for the neurochemical mechanisms of motion sickness: (1) the histaminergic neuron system is involved in the signs and symptoms of motion sickness, including vomiting; (2) the acetylcholinergic neuron system is involved in the processes of habituation to motion sickness, including neural store mechanisms; and (3) the catecholaminergic neuron system in the brain stem is not related to the development of motion sickness.
  • (2) The relationship between cold-insoluble complexes, or cryoglobulins, and renal disease was studied in rabbits with acute serum sickness produced with BSA.
  • (3) Decompression sickness and air embolism are medical emergencies.
  • (4) A total of 6 cases of sick sinus syndrome were presented, including 2 cases of sinoatrial (SA) block and 4 cases of bradycardia-tachycardia syndrome.
  • (5) Inner Ear Decompression Sickness (IEDCS)--manifested by tinnitus, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, and hearing loss--is usually associated with deep air or mixed gas dives, and accompanied by other CNS symptoms of decompression sickness (DCS).
  • (6) The regimen used at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, provides 2.0 to 2.5 gm protein per kilogram ideal body weight, plus adequate fluid and nutrient supplements.
  • (7) I am absolutely sick to the stomach that this iconic Australian news agency would attack the navy in the way that it has,” he said.
  • (8) This "first exposure" determines whether one views oneself as "sick" or changed.
  • (9) We suggest that sick districts can be affirmed on the basis of the total amount of fluoride intake, the prevalence rates of dental fluorosis, bad incomplete teeth, milk-teeth and the mean output of urinary fluoride between 8 and 15 years of age.
  • (10) Clarke varies the intensity of sessions but for most of the time it's go hard or go home: I've learned that neither more pain nor being sick are anything to be afraid of.
  • (11) Thus, carotid sinus massage and, to some extent, isoprenaline administration appear simple bedside tests which may be helpful in identifying the underlying mechanism of sick sinus syndrome.
  • (12) Rapid techniques were applied to study functional activity of peripheral blood phagocytes in acute sick patients and upon discharge.
  • (13) The questionnaires (Arthritis Impact Measurement Scales [AIMS], Functional Status Index [FSI], Health Assessment Questionnaire [HAQ], Index of Well Being [IWB], and Sickness Impact Profile [SIP]) were administered to 38 patients with end-stage arthritis at three points in time: two weeks before hip or knee arthroplasty, and at three-month and 12- to 15-month follow-up.
  • (14) The results from the first session indicated that the development of motion sickness was accompanied by increased EGG 4-9 cpm activity (gastric tachyarrhythmia), decreased mean successive differences of RRI, increased skin conductance levels, and increased self-motion perception.
  • (15) No sick or dead monkeys were found in all the forests checked around Entebbe area during the epizootic.
  • (16) Implantation of a single-chamber pacemaker was planned in an 83-year-old woman with sick-sinus syndrome causing dizziness, bradycardia and tachycardia.
  • (17) In a Europe (including Britain) where austerity has become the economic dogma of the elite in spite of massive evidence that it is choking growth and worsening the very sickness it claims to heal, there are plenty of rational, sensible arguments for taking to the streets.
  • (18) There are no more operational hospitals and not a single ambulance to rescue the ever-growing number of wounded and sick.
  • (19) The aim of this study was to compare the predictive power of a simple illness severity score (Clinical Sickness Score) to that of APACHE II in a District General Hospital intensive therapy unit.
  • (20) This is confirmed by a slight inhibition of SLE target cell proliferation and the activating effect of immunoregulatory cells on the proliferation of "sick" targets.

Unwell


Definition:

  • (a.) Not well; indisposed; not in good health; somewhat ill; ailing.
  • (a.) Specifically, ill from menstruation; affected with, or having, catamenial; menstruant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is quickly established that he suffered a heart attack at work and has recently claimed employment and support allowance (ESA), which is an income replacement benefit for those too unwell or disabled to work, or look for work.
  • (2) It would transpire that, by happy chance, the virus was maximally infective only when patients were at their most unwell and usually already in hospital.
  • (3) We have a high number of A&E attendances over this time that are due to issues that could have been avoided had people sought advice at the first sign of illness.” The Stay Well This Winter campaign will use TV, radio and social media to encourage people to wrap up warm and consult a pharmacist as soon as they feel unwell rather than waiting.
  • (4) Furthermore, patients seeking aesthetic surgery are generally healthy and well, unlike patients who seek medical care for disease; surgeons must exercise extraordinary care to ensure that rejuventation surgery does not result in an unwell patient.
  • (5) In later life the star had to give up drinking due to ill health but the greatest acting triumph of his later years was playing another notorious drunk, and O'Toole drinking buddy, Spectator columnist Jeffrey Bernard in Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell.
  • (6) As an alcoholic in long-term sobriety – on Christmas Day 1991, he was distracted from throwing himself off Tower Bridge by a friend offering him a glass of sherry, and soon entered recovery – Ferguson said he would not make jokes at the expense of the unwell.
  • (7) He has now told the Daily Telegraph: “I was not unwell – I have not had heart palpitations - but I was getting increasingly terrible pain in my shoulder, my back and so I was suffering from neuralgic pain.
  • (8) If they have been taken and the person feels unwell, they should consult their doctor.” 'Hopeful' study of autism wins Samuel Johnson prize 2015 Read more MMS is sold by the self-styled Genesis II Church of Health and Healing , which is officially based in the Dominican Republic and claims a UK outpost in Rotherhithe, south-east London.
  • (9) His first public appearance since 3 September, when he attended a concert in Pyongyang with his wife, appeared to confirm claims that Kim has been unwell.
  • (10) Scudamore himself and the chairman, Anthony Fry, who is currently unwell, are the only members of the Premier League's board.
  • (11) However, the sources said they feared China’s leaders were playing a calculated waiting game, attempting to ride out a storm of international criticism until Liu was genuinely too unwell to be moved from the hospital in north-east China where he is being treated under guard.
  • (12) If their temperature is 37.5°C or higher, or they begin to feel unwell in any way, they are advised to call a dedicated Public Health England contact immediately for advice.
  • (13) A nurse who faces being struck off over a botched Ebola screening at Heathrow airport has said it is “preposterous” that she would have concealed knowledge that Pauline Cafferkey was unwell.
  • (14) If you have taken illegal drugs, or if you know someone who has become unwell after taking illegal drugs and needs urgent medical care, call 999 immediately and ask for the ambulance service.” Police are urging anyone in possession of the pills to hand them in to prevent further deaths or harm.
  • (15) Some of the eyewitnesses gave evidence at Mair’s trial, but one became so unwell as a consequence of what she saw that she could not attend.
  • (16) They just released her the next day.” Wollaston rightly highlights the problem of holding mentally unwell children in police cells but experience suggests it is not just young people with a history of mental health problems who are vulnerable.
  • (17) In some patients who have shown hydroxydicarboxylic aciduria when unwell there is reduced 3H2O production from [9,10-3H]myristic and [9,10-3H]palmitic acids by intact cultured fibroblasts but normal 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase activities in disrupted cells.
  • (18) Klebsiella pneumoniae with an unusual antibiotic susceptibility pattern was isolated from blood cultures of seven unwell premature babies on the Special Care Baby Unit.
  • (19) "Faced for much of the time with a chronic shortage of beds, community teams are forced to manage ever more unwell patients at home with dwindling resources.
  • (20) A more consistent pattern of precedence of change was obtained for mood and cognition: negative cognitive style predicted changes in both mood measures and feeling unwell predicted changes in negative automatic thoughts.