Words similar to ailment

Example sentences for: ailment

How can you use “ailment” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Though the benefits of gene therapy are theoretically large, none of the dozens of trials in the U.S. (or elsewhere) has achieved a long-term cure for any ailment.
Another example: if a doctor treats an elderly patient for a lung ailment, the doctor's treatment will be undone and he will see the patient again and again, if the patient is sent home to an unheated apartment.
China, if you think about it, suffers from a milder form of the same ailment.
She died before that could happen while hospitalized with a chronic ailment.
With no celebrity ailment too inconsequential to mine for dramatic potential, Friends star Courteney Cox's routine LASIK surgery to correct her nearsightedness is treated with the kind of life-and-death anguish usually reserved for quadruple bypass operations and liver transplants.