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noun

a physical disorder or illness, especially of a minor or chronic nature.

Origin:
1700–10; ail + -ment

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The ailment of hypersensitivity, a symptom of the disease of political correctness, is breaking out in journalism.

But the ailment is now fashionable enough to attract the interest of those with mildly upset feelings.

The hallucination that he could jump back to camp is a typical manifestation of that ailment.

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The ailment of hypersensitivity, a symptom of the disease of political correctness, is breaking out in journalism.

But the ailment is now fashionable enough to attract the interest of those with mildly upset feelings.

The hallucination that he could jump back to camp is a typical manifestation of that ailment.

The ailment may be in part the result of the stresses imposed on hives by this uniquely modern system.

The ailment isn't an illness in the traditional sense.

If proteins are doing their job wrong, the result is a physical ailment.

He died of a heart ailment and pneumonia, a family spokeswoman said.

It seems, therefore, that what has hitherto been regarded as a single ailment is actually two.

Beryllium causes acute or chronic beryllium disease, a deadly ailment affecting the lungs.

McCoy pulled out a tricorder, and named a medical ailment without even laying a hand on a patient.

On the skin, the ailment starts after three to five days with a nondescript, painless blister that is red around the edges.

In some cases scientists have indeed found a new explanation for a particular ailment.

The company is targeting medicines in the cardiovascular, diabetes, tuberculosis and psychiatric ailment areas.

The ailment is one unhappy consequence of the region's economic transformation.

It does nothing to cure any disease or virus, or physical ailment.

Consumers waste trillions of yen on products purporting to cure every known ailment from bad breath to stress.

Most people aren't qualified to determine which medical procedure/product is the optimal product to treat their ailment.

More women are experiencing heart disease, an ailment normally endemic among men.

Fine, perhaps, if the ailment in question is a mild case of eczema.

California finding bolsters theory linking neurological ailment to insecticides.

In the case of the office worker, the ailment might be a toxic interface.

He had been suffering from a heart ailment for many years, family members said.

The ailment causes bats to wake up during hibernation, which means the animals use up their fat reserves too fast.

He suffered from a heart ailment for some time and died of natural causes, his family said.

Is an ailment a legitimate disease if you can't test for.

The cause of this puzzling ailment is unknown, but scientists suspect genetic factors and chronic stress may be involved.

Elsewhere," diagnoses and treatments covering every ailment lurking in a medical encyclopedia have been meted out free in what.

Perry underwent surgery early this month to correct what his aides describe as a recurring back ailment.

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World English Dictionary

ailment (ˈeɪlmənt)

—n
	a slight but often persistent illness

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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Medical Dictionary

ailment ail·ment (āl'mənt)
n.
A physical or mental disorder, especially a mild illness.

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Encyclopedia

ailment

a harmful deviation from the normal structural or functional state of an organism. A diseased organism commonly exhibits signs or symptoms indicative of its abnormal state. Thus, the normal condition of an organism must be understood in order to recognize the hallmarks of disease. Nevertheless, a sharp demarcation between disease and health is not always apparent

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