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sequela

[si-kwel-uh, -kwee-luh] / sɪˈkwɛl ə, -ˈkwi lə /


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But by far the most painful thing was knowing I had exposed my wife and unborn child to COVID-19 and its labyrinth of winding pathology and sequela.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 28, 2021

Phthisis is, however, a much less frequent sequela of typhus than of typhoid fever.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Causes.—Inflammation is the only known cause, although it may not occur immediately; it frequently follows catarrhal conjunctivitis and keratitis as a sequela.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

Even as it is, if my wife's health admitted of moving I'd pitch it up to-morrow and run away—anywhere—ere softening of the brain came on as the sequela of hardening of the heart.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Edmund Downey

Death may also be the result of a sequela long after the disease has run its course.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Moreover, repeated infections can lead to the post-streptococcal sequelae of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease, for which the Australian Indigenous population bears the highest disease burden globally.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2023

This lack of scientific understanding creates an untold degree of hardship for those dealing with severe and chronic sequelae of infections.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2023

The syndrome is known by medical professionals as postacute sequelae of COVID-19, or PASC.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 14, 2023

Scientists have come to know it as post-acute sequelae of COVID, or PASC, and the federal government launched a program to study it in February 2021.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2022

Scarlet fever is one of childhood's most dreaded diseases because of, first, its long quarantine; second, its terrible possibilities of contagion; and, third, its sequelae.

From The Mother and Her Child by William S. Sadler


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