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Example sentences for: ailment

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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.
She died before that could happen while hospitalized with a chronic ailment.
The caption: "This will definitely cure your ailment.
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.
The site of infection is the gastrointestinal tract, where it causes a chronic inflammatory ailment termed Johne's disease [ 5 ] . In contrast, M. avium is common in the environment, causes tuberculosis in birds, and disseminated infections in HIV patients [ 6 ] . Growth of M. paratuberculosis is characterized by its slow rate (doubling time of 22-26 hours, compared to 10-12 hours for M. avium ) and requirement of mycobactin in culture media [ 5 ] . With the absence of a well-defined genetic system for M. paratuberculosis , a comparative genomic approach holds great potential in addressing the genetic basis for many of these phenotypic differences.