chronic
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All participants were generally healthy, did not smoke, were not following specialized diets, and had no major chronic medical conditions.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
She has lived with chronic endometriosis all of her adult life, having first begun to experience chronic period pain aged 14.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
I pretend my chronic social media use is “for work,” and to some extent that’s true.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
"Current pain medicine is fixated on ridding patients of their pain symptoms, but that's not the source of chronic pain. These data suggest that a chronic pain flare also encompasses one's identity."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
We were still ten kilometers from the village when my chronic backache spread to a deep, rock-hard contraction across my lower belly, and I understood with horror that I was in labor.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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