Definition of
ailment has definitions from the field of medicine
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[ noun ] (medicine) an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining

Synonyms

complaint ill

Used in print

(Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)

( He explained that he could diagnose these ailments from squeezing her foot because all_of the nervous_system was connected to it . )

He then sold her minerals to cure her kidney ailment , a can of sage `` to make her look_like a girl again '' , and an application of plain mud to take her wrinkles away .

Sarah_Gross found that the treatments given her for a nervous ailment by the masseur were not helping her .

Says Wallace_F._Jannsen , director of the FDA 's Division_of_Public_Information : `` Quacks are apt to direct their appeal directly to older people , or to sufferers from chronic ailments such_as arthritis , rheumatism , diabetes , and cancer .

Related terms

disorder pip motion_sickness afflict

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Rhymes with

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Phonetic and Homophones

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