AILMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ailment mean? 

• AILMENT (noun)
  The noun AILMENT has 1 sense:

1. an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining

  Familiarity information: AILMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AILMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

ailment; complaint; ill

Hypernyms ("ailment" is a kind of...):

disorder; upset (a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ailment"):

pip (a minor nonspecific ailment)

kinetosis; motion sickness (the state of being dizzy or nauseated because of the motions that occur while traveling in or on a moving vehicle)

Derivation:

ail (cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed)

ail (be ill or unwell)

 Context examples 

This would be life-changing for patients with cerebral palsy, Lou Gehrig's disease, and other ailments that lead to loss of muscle function.

(Fundamental Rules for How The Brain Controls Movement, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Moreover, the shift from deep, consolidated sleep in youth to fitful, dissatisfying sleep can start as early as one's 30s, paving the way for sleep-related cognitive and physical ailments in middle age.

(Deep Sleep May Act as Fountain of Youth in Old Age, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Most everyone knows that air pollution can cause physical ailments, particularly those associated with the lungs, but new evidence suggests it can also cause mental harm.

(Pollution Linked to Significant Decline in Human Cognition, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Scientific studies have shown that airborne particles are associated with adverse health effects inducing respiratory diseases, heart ailments, and other problems.

(Airborne Particulate Matter, NCI Thesaurus)

He is a seller of pills and salves, very learned in humors, and rheums, and fluxes, and all manner of ailments.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The leaf oil is used for the treatment of digestive ailments and in skincare.

(Lovage Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

Heat waves cause widespread discomfort and can be deadly for vulnerable individuals, while surface ozone and air pollution are linked to premature death from heart disease, stroke and lung ailments.

(Dangers of Concurrent Heat Waves, Air Pollution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Their method could speed the development of medical treatments for microbiota-linked ailments such as Crohn's disease.

(Microbes are at work in our bodies, and researchers have figured out what they're up to, National Science Foundation)

Being diagnosed with a serious chronic ailment, such as diabetes or cancer, now or in the past, can increase the risk for it.

(Depression - men far more at risk than women in deprived areas, University of Cambridge)

Swirski’s research could eventually shed light on how to prevent and treat cardiovascular disease and other related ailments in humans.

(Some gut cells slow down metabolism, accelerate cardiovascular disease, National Institutes of Health)