Illness
41illness — /ˈɪlnəs / (say ilnuhs) noun 1. a state of bad health; sickness. 2. an attack of sickness. 3. Obsolete wickedness …
42illness — Ma i. See disease, sickness …
43illness — n. 1 a disease, ailment, or malady. 2 the state of being ill …
44Critical illness insurance — or critical illness cover is an insurance product, where the insurer is contracted to typically make a lump sum cash payment if the policyholder is diagnosed with one of the critical illnesses listed in the insurance policy. The policy may also… …
45Foodborne illness — Food safety Terms Foodborne illness Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) …
46Charles Darwin's illness — For much of his adult life Charles Darwin s illness repeatedly affected him with an uncommon combination of symptoms, leaving him severely debilitated for long periods of time, incapable of normal life and intellectual production, staying in bed… …
47Mass psychogenic illness — (MPI), also called mass sociogenic illness,[1] is “the rapid spread of illness signs and symptoms affecting members of a cohesive group, originating from a nervous system disturbance involving excitation, loss or alteration of function, whereby… …
48mental illness — A disputed concept (see for example the entries elsewhere in this dictionary on Laing and anti psychiatry) founded on the everyday contrast between mind and body which, when applied to illness, generates an opposition between two contrasting… …
49Manic-Depressive Illness — (Bipolar Disorder) Before 1850, numerous physicians had commented on the alternation of mania and melancholia. In 1844, Karl Wigand Maximilian Jacobi (1775–1858), chief physician of Siegburg asylum in Germany, noted that Exaltation and… …
50National Alliance on Mental Illness — The National Alliance on Mental Illness (also known as NAMI) was founded in 1979 as the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. NAMI is a nation wide American advocacy group, representing families and people affected by mental illness as a non… …
