CATASTROPHIC ILLNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does catastrophic illness mean? 

• CATASTROPHIC ILLNESS (noun)
  The noun CATASTROPHIC ILLNESS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CATASTROPHIC ILLNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATASTROPHIC ILLNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("catastrophic illness" is a kind of...):

illness; malady; sickness; unwellness (impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism)