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ailment

/eyl-muhnt/US // ˈeɪl mənt //UK // (ˈeɪlmənt) //

疾病,病症,病痛,毛病

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a physical disorder or illness, especially of a minor or chronic nature.

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Examples

  • Between 2012 and 2014, Boyd visited Methodist five times for chronic stomach ailments.

  • The 2018-19 Lakers sputtered to a 37-45 finish amid various ailments, including the first long-term injury of LeBron James’s career and Brandon Ingram’s bout with deep vein thrombosis.

  • Exposure to air pollution raises your risk for many common ailments, such as cardiovascular disease, asthma, diabetes and obesity.

  • Her team tries to treat populations from preventive and predictive lenses instead of just treating ailments in primary care clinics.

  • These Y-shaped proteins occur naturally in the human body to fight off various ailments.

  • Always believing he could conquer his ailment, Lou had hopes, however slim, that others were writing him off too soon.

  • Silverstone will “show you the way to have a luminous, present, ailment-free pregnancy.”

  • Ellis was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver in 2007, and passed away from the ailment on Dec. 19, 2008.

  • At least with a physical or mental ailment some guilt can be assuaged.

  • If I was sick, usually from some respiratory ailment brought on by smoking, I would smoke nonetheless.

  • And here I was, prone and helpless, being powwowed not for one ailment, but for all the diseases known in Happy Valley.

  • Then I remembered Dr. Alling, who had attended me for some slight ailment, and wrote to him, with the result you know.

  • Cydalise probably accompanied Montes to Brazil, the only place where this horrible ailment is curable.

  • On being taken into her confidence, Dommanget treated and cured her ailment by purely moral methods.

  • It was only the previous evening that Mrs. Travilla herself had learned that she was assailed by more than a trifling ailment.