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sickness

[sik-nis] / ˈsɪk nɪs /


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Jeanne Abrams is professor emerita at the University of Denver and author of “Revolutionary Medicine: The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Pregnancy Sickness Support has broken them down into first, second and third-line medication categories.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025

Sickness was seen less as a fixed set of symptoms ruled by purely biological factors in a body, and more as a response to a stressful environment.

From Slate • May 26, 2024

Sickness can hurt farm output by slowing animals' growth, so disease detection systems could improve efficiency by obviating the need for costly clinical testing.

From Salon • May 15, 2024

I ask Dad what afflicted means and he says, Sickness, son, and things that don’t fit.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt




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