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SERIOUSLY ILL

Specialty Definition: SERIOUSLY ILL

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Medicine

A patient is seriously ill when his illness is of such severity that there is cause for immediate concern but there is no imminent danger to life. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: SERIOUSLY ILL

English words defined with "SERIOUSLY ILL": neonatal intensive care unit, NICU. (references)
Specialty definitions using "SERIOUSLY ILL": very seriously ill. (references)

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Commercial Usage: SERIOUSLY ILL

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Books

  • Share the Care: How to Organize a Group to Care for Someone Who Is Seriously Ill (reference)

  • Nutritional Support of the Seriously Ill Patient: Bristol-Myers Nutrition Symposia (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Photo Album: SERIOUSLY ILL

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Listeria monocytogenes is the infectious agent responsible for the food borne illness Listeriosis. In the United States, an estimated 2,500 persons become seriously ill with listeriosis each year. Of these, 500 die. Credit: CDC.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: SERIOUSLY ILL

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Emma

Austen, Jane

She had never been admitted before to be seriously ill.

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Non-Fiction Usage: SERIOUSLY ILL

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Health

The elderly are especially vulnerable to getting seriously ill and dying from this disease. (references)

IVIG is usually reserved for children who are seriously ill and who are not responding to antibiotic therapy. (references)

In general, a Ronald McDonald House is available for families of seriously ill children and provides lodging at economical rates. (references)

Business

Put another way, the number of bed-ridden or seriously ill Japanese is expected to increase from 2.8 million at present, to over 5 million by 2025. This dramatic demographic change will have a profound impact on Japan's healthcare system. (references)

Human Rights

Ghana

The President also convened a medical board to consider early release for 156 seriously ill or aged prisoners. (references)

Italy

Except in extraordinary situations, preventive custody is not permitted for pregnant women, single parents of children under 3 years of age, persons over 70 years of age, or those who are seriously ill. (references)

Azerbaijan

In 2000 approximately 2,000 prisoners were treated for TB. Due to the absence of systematic screening of the prison population, patients often start treatment when they are already seriously ill and there is only a 55 percent cure rate. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expressions: SERIOUSLY ILL

Expressions using "SERIOUSLY ILL": seriously ill patient very seriously ill. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SERIOUSLY ILL

Language Translations for "SERIOUSLY ILL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

alvorligt tilfælde, alvorligt syg. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pahoin sairaana. (various references)

   

French

  

cas sérieux. (various references)

   

German

  

schwerkrank. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

חול" א וש (far gone, sick into death). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

súlyos beteg (seriously sick, to be in a bad plight, to be in a bad way). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

重態 (critical state, serious condition), 重" (critical state, serious condition). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

じゅうたい (column, congestion, critical state, delay, serious condition, stagnation, zodiac). (various references)

   

Manx

  

trome-ching. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eriouslysay illay

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ozbiljno oboljenje. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ağır hasta. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SERIOUSLY ILL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-i-i-l-l-l-o-r-s-s-u-y"

-2 letters: illusorily.

-3 letters: seriously.

-4 letters: illusory, rouilles, soilures.

-5 letters: elusory, lollers, lollies, lorises, lousier, lousily, rissole, rouille, serious, sillers, sillier, sillies, sillily, soilure, sullies, surlily.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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