ailments

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Ailments like anemia, kidney stones and osteoporosis can arise as well, and most returning astronauts can barely walk under the sudden chains of gravity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

"You've got the Common Ailments Schemes at pharmacies, where patients can be seen for lots of common illness. Ear infections, skin infections, sinus infections. It's about knowing who offers what."

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2023

Casting her net impossibly wide, Soper has described further influences that go back to Ovid and include “The Many Ailments of Clover” from the 1953 Yearbook of the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2023

Ailments that affect the joints are also widespread, such as arthritis, which can make movement difficult and—in advanced cases—completely impair mobility.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Ailments of this kind, which involve inability of the will to control, or rather to initiate, movements of the body, receive their best explanation on the neuron or neuroglia theory.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)