Catastrophic Illness

Definition: Catastrophic Illness

Catastrophic Illness

Noun

1. Severe illness requiring prolonged hospitalization or recovery; usually involves high costs for hospitals and doctors and medicines.

Specialty Definitions: Catastrophic Illness

Domain	Definitions
Health	An acute or prolonged illness usually considered to be life-threatening or with the threat of serious residual disability. Treatment may be radical and is frequently costly. (references)
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Commercial Usage: Catastrophic Illness

Domain	Title
Books	Catastrophic Illness and the Family: A Physician's Perspective (reference) Determined Spirit: One Woman's Victory in Catastrophic Illness (reference) Facing a Catastrophic Illness With Hope (#5340B) (reference) How to Survive a Catastrophic Illness (reference) Listen to the Children: A Study of the Impact on the Mental Health of Children of a Parent's Catastrophic Illness (reference) (more book examples)
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Speeches: Catastrophic Illness

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	I think we should protect our children and their families from the costs of catastrophic illness.
Gerald Ford	1974-1977	The burden of catastrophic illness can be borne by very few in our society.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Catastrophic Illness

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Ancestral Language Translations: Catastrophic Illness

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	arthritis, nosogenum:Corynebacterium pyogenes, polyarthritis. (various references)
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Anagrams: Catastrophic Illness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-h-i-i-l-l-n-o-p-r-s-s-s-t-t"
	-4 letters: interscholastic, sacrosanctities.
	-5 letters: historicalness, neoplasticists, pantisocracies, scholasticates, separationists.
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