sufferer
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A sufferer may have rigidity or tremors in one of their arms or legs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
“Animate” includes a fascinating chapter on clinical lycanthropy, a psychiatric condition in which the sufferer believes that he or she is an animal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Not every back pain sufferer needs to see a spine surgeon, or even a physician, right away.
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2024
The daughters of an elderly dementia sufferer who was forced to move after her care home closed have told of their family's ordeal and said homes “shouldn’t be treated like businesses”.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2024
She was being extra clever, she knew, changing the sex of the sufferer, just in case the healer had heard of the woman in the cave.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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