Phrase Hound found 13 phrases and 3 compound words that contain illness. The most common are listed below. Open illness in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 13
- mental illnessThe property of being mentally ill; mental disorders taken as a whole.
- chronic illnessAn illness that is persistent, usually with long-term effects.
- terminal illnessAn illness that is normally incurable and that a terminally ill person would not be expected to recover from.
- critical illnessInsurance that pays out a lump sum benefit on the diagnosis of a serious (life-threatening) illness in the life assured within the term of the policy, and nothing on death or healthy survival to the end of the term.
- folk illnessA combination of psychiatric and somatic symptoms that are considered to be a recognizable disease only within a specific society or culture.
- Gulf War illnessAlternative form of Gulf War syndrome: A chronic multisymptom disorder affecting veterans and civilians after the 1991 Gulf War, possibly related to chemical weapons.
- food-borne illnessAlternative form of foodborne illness: Any food-borne disease, such as salmonella, that typically causes diarrhea, vomiting, nausea, fever and abdominal cramps.
- foodborne illnessSynonym of food poisoning: Any food-borne disease, such as salmonella, that typically causes diarrhea, vomiting, nausea, fever and abdominal cramps.
- final illnessThe period of illness at the end of a person's life which culminates in death.
- food-derived illnessSynonym of food poisoning: Any food-borne disease, such as salmonella, that typically causes diarrhea, vomiting, nausea, fever and abdominal cramps.
- postorgasmic illness syndromeA syndrome in which men have severe cognitive and physical symptoms (such as fatigue, muscular weakness, perspiration, and mood disturbances) immediately following ejaculation, and in the absence of a local genital reaction.
- accelerated critical illnessInsurance that pays out a lump sum benefit on either the death or diagnosis of a serious (life-threatening) illness in the life assured within the term of the policy, and nothing on healthy survival to the end of the term.
- seroconversion illnessSynonym of acute retroviral syndrome: The first, flulike, stage of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus.
Compound words 3
- illnesslikeResembling or characteristic of illness.
- nonillnessAbsence of illness; a state that is not illness.
- shrillnessThe property of being shrill.