The phrase "additional ailment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a new or extra medical condition that a person may have alongside an existing one.
Example: "The patient was diagnosed with diabetes and an additional ailment that required further treatment."
Alternatives: "extra condition" or "supplementary illness."
The term "comorbidity" refers to the coexistence of any additional ailment in a person with an index disease [1].
Kubiak put the blame on his own shoulders for playing Manning, even after he showed up at practice Saturday with the additional ailment of sore ribs.
On average, each additional ailment reported by the subject in the photograph was associated with the subject being rated as having 5.61 percentage-points worse health by female raters than by male raters (p = 0.01).
When including only female raters, an additional ailment reported by the subject in the photograph was associated with a decrease of 6.72 percentage-points in health assessment (p = .026).026
He went on to help capture Island Number Ten (about 55 miles [88 km] below Cairo, Ill ., in the Mississippi, but his injuries and additional ailments soon forced him to relinquish all but nominal command.
Heightened levels of ozone and other local air pollutants during ever-hotter summer months spike the rates of asthma attacks and additional ailments.
As more of the cohort ages onto Medicare, our sample will grow larger and allow for evaluating risks for additional ailments, but it would take a very large sample to study very uncommon diseases.
The self-reported number of comorbidities which could contribute to balance deficits was measured using an investigator-designed checklist which included 15 common FM-related comorbidities (for example, irritable bowel or bladder, chronic headaches, pelvic pain) and 3 additional ailments, including diabetes and hip or knee osteoarthritis as confirmed by X-rays.
Dr Nespolon believes that Medicare's bulk-billed healthcare scheme fails to take into account the amount of time needed for an adequate mental health consultation not to mention the additional physical ailments that are so often associated with psychological problems.
SOLS, a 3D-printing company which, to date, has focused on printing custom shoe insoles prescribed by doctors for foot pain and other ailments, has now raised an additional $11.1 million in funding to help bring the product directly to consumers.
Additional file 1: Somatic Ailments Questionnaire (originally in polish).
