Because many COPD patients are simultaneously afflicted with GORD, and because GORD has been suggested to exacerbate COPD symptoms, GORD may thus represent a novel risk factor for exacerbations that is highly prevalent in the COPD patient population.
The author of more than a dozen collections of poetry, as well as critical essays and works for the stage, he repeatedly explored the strife and uncertainties that have afflicted his homeland, while managing simultaneously to steer clear of polemic.
Mired in the same slow recovery that afflicted the American economy overall, the U.S. theatre world struggled in 2013 to simultaneously keep audiences happy and make ends meet.
afflicted with Brownheart.
To comfort the afflicted.
The revelation that Wilson may be afflicted with a physiological vulnerability to the downward pull — to the sort of self-annihilating impulse best described in William Styron's "Darkness Visible" — simultaneously fascinates us and causes us to avert our gaze.
Aid the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
He is afflicted with loneliness.
The tumours, by contrast, were fatally afflicted.
