a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.

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Across the country, people with severe mental illness live what appear to be normal, successful lives.

Slumped on a dirty floor, this young girl constantly scratches her skin due to an illness.

Advanced dementia has often been treated as an amalgamation of symptoms in the aging, rather than a deadly illness in itself.

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Across the country, people with severe mental illness live what appear to be normal, successful lives.

Slumped on a dirty floor, this young girl constantly scratches her skin due to an illness.

Advanced dementia has often been treated as an amalgamation of symptoms in the aging, rather than a deadly illness in itself.

The evidence is mounting: mental illness might be caused by microbes.

Foodborne illness experts who have studied sprouts were not surprised to see them identified as a possible culprit.

Severe, chronic mental illness was viewed as relatively rare.

The first was that la flacherie, as the worms' illness was called, was contagious.

Experience may contribute to mental illness in a surprising way: by causing.

But all the while untold numbers of men were suffering from the same illness.

But fakes abound, with some even suffering an illness of their.

Domenici's progressive brain disease has left unanswered questions about how the illness is affecting him.

The study of human illness depends on bloated rodents.

Most suffer from drug or alcohol addiction, mental illness or both.

So sometimes the treatment was worse than the original illness.

More evidence for the long-suspected physiological link between inventiveness and mental illness.

Graunt revealed how patterns of sickness suggest links between illness and certain activities, diets or lifestyles.

He leaves behind a widely known, but no longer widely used, test for diagnosing mental illness with inkblots.

The rarity of their illness is matched by a scarcity of drugs to treat.

In humans, soil consumption-or geophagy-has often been viewed as a sign of metabolic disorder or even mental illness.

Also features extensive exhibits on the history of the treatment of mental illness.

The goal is to shift medicine from treating illness to managing health, saving money and lives along the way.

The authors explain that the links between illness and economic loss are complicated.

Babies with low birth weights tend to be smaller and more prone to illness as adults, he says.

Rumors spread that the music itself could cause mental illness.

Staffing shortages due to illness would increase that dramatically, creating backups.

If that turns out to be so, it will affect the understanding and treatment of mental illness.

For instance, understanding illness in invaders may be useful in identifying potential methods of controlling them, he added.

Therapists have long known that men and women experience mental illness differently.

Fame only made dealing with her mental illness that much more stressful and put her under more pressure.

Poverty, corruption, illness are all part of the story.

Characteristically, no announcement was made as to where she had gone, or whether her illness was serious.

Quite possibly, the next debilitating illness might accelerate the rate of his leukemia.

The case for strep throat-induced mental illness grows stronger.

Today, the illness has become chronic and manageable with the use of effective multi-drug treatments.

Even so, you gottafigure that veterinarians and pet owners are facing the same issuesthat humans with mental illness do:.

The foul air kills thousands of people a year and inflicts chronic illness on countless others.

The water is said to ward off illness for the rest of the year.

In other studies, older men were more likely to father children with mental illness or other deficits.

Shonibare suffered a devastating viral illness that left him partially paralyzed.

On the other end are parents who perceive their child's illness or discomfort as a phase or.

And the wish to disguise illness can be felt as widely as its effects.

Pesticide exposure-related illness is a major problem in the agricultural communities of developing nations.

The speed of illness could vary from death within three weeks of the onset of symptoms, to an infection of a year or more.

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

However, effectively protecting workers from beryllium-related illness remains largely a mystery.

When the chicken is slaughtered, the harmful bacteria contaminates the meat, and can end up causing illness in whoever eats.

Just looking at sick people protects against illness.

Keep the potato salad cold, or hold at room temperature for no more then four hours to prevent any illness.

But this pat explanation obscures a lingering paradox of depression, which is that the mental illness is extremely common.

The same goes for missing cats or cats suffering from illness.

Vaccines are a necessary and missing component of a global effort to eradicate this illness.

It is a shame that poor taste and mental illness cannot so easily be cured.

He was not the first doctor to witness the strange illness.

It was thought to protect people from illness and bring luck and rain.

Experience may contribute to mental illness in a surprising way:.

Society has also shifted its view of the causes of mental illness.

To him, every mental illness stemmed from a physical defect in the brain.

Severe mental illness alone is not generally enough to cause violent behavior.

Placebos work if the illness is psychosomatic in nature, but if the illness if real, it will not work.

The uncertainties of a chronic illness can include job insecurity.

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World English Dictionary

illness (ˈɪlnɪs)

—n
1.	a disease or indisposition; sickness
2.	a state of ill health
3.	obsolete wickedness

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Medical Dictionary

illness ill·ness (ĭl'nĭs)
n.
Disease of body or mind; poor health; sickness.

Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia

illness

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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