Sentence examples for bodily illness from inspiring English sources

Now researchers are gleaning insights into the neural and evolutionary underpinnings of envy, and why it can feel like a bodily illness or a physical blow.

According to these early theorists, emotional stability as well as general health depend on an appropriate balance among the four bodily humours; an excess of one may produce a particular bodily illness or an exaggerated personality trait.

Descartes considered the emotions central to the treatment of both mental and bodily illness.

As well as offering antidotes to bodily illness, many also claim to be able to curse and even kill enemies.

"Anything that can be demonstrated to reduce suffering, especially of a bodily illness, or one of the mind, would be more or less kosher," Dr. Ajay Chaudhary, a lecturer on religious studies at Columbia University and founder of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, told me on the phone.

Recalled experiences of bodily illness and of comfort (Kontos & Naglie, 2007, 2009) also facilitated small but important empathetic gestures of care, such as the choice of toileting over bedpans and the selection of a favored nightgown.

The relationship of noise and vibration to positive responses (health complaints) related to bodily symptoms, illness and emotional disturbances was analyzed.

The Swedish Penal Code defines assault as a crime in which an offender inflicts bodily injury, illness, or pain to another person or renders a person powerless or in a similar helpless state (Swedish Code of Statutes 1962 700).

Despite the reference to her particular weakness, her point is general: there are certain bodily conditions – illness, weakness, stress, or just a "touch of the vapors" – that interfere with the mental activities of reasoning and willing, make us more prone to the passions, and thereby compromise our ability to apply the cure Descartes has recommended.

In support of this notion we observed the emergence of chronic illness, bodily pain, functional limitations, perceptions of poor general health and a high risk of obesity among those of a low relative rank.

There were some exceptions in which subtractive effects were observed, mainly clustered within subjects with diabetes and co-existing heart disease (physical functioning, role-physical, social functioning and role-emotional scales) or musculoskeletal illnesses (bodily pain and social functioning scales).