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Example sentences for: illness

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

1. "Characters portrayed as suffering from mental illness are depicted as the most dangerous of demographic groups, with 60% shown to be involved in crime or violence (three times the actual rate)."
Among the most important is the ability to assess the large majority of episodes of illness for which no etiologic agents are identified, either because good medical practice does not require that clinicians perform diagnostic tests, or because an unusual agent may fail to be detected by standard laboratory tests.
Chronic Illness
In order to investigate whether serum ProCT levels might correlate with the severity of illness in sepsis, and thus might provide a convenient marker, we employed a rodent model of quantifiable Escherichia coli peritonitis, modified for use in the hamster [ 18].
ICUs that use APACHE II as their database severity of illness scoring system will find it easy to apply the system to this subgroup of patients rather than implementing a special disease-specific system exclusively for OLTX patients.