Sentence examples for chronicity from inspiring English sources
noun
The condition of being chronic.
"Because of the chronicity of the trauma, there's never any recovery period.
In the UK, we should use austerity to look at how we deal with chronicity, avoid creating dependency and a hopeless model of maintenance by learning from other countries and offering alternatives for change.
The astonishing chronicity of heroin dependence is one of its most outstanding characteristics.
However, it soon became clear to depressed people – and to many of us working in the psychiatric system – that antidepressants did not prevent recurrence and chronicity.
The chronicity of addiction is really a kind of fatalism writ large.
"The huge gift that Beckett gave to theater, to women playwrights in particular, is our notion of dramaturgy: a non-Aristotelian, nonapocalyptic sense of time, sheer chronicity that stretches to eternity," she continued.
"We are concerned about the chronicity of symptoms among the survivors," Dr. Perkins added.
Though the article notes the protective effect of a good caretaker, it focuses more on the high-risk genotype than on the differences in abuse experiences -- severity, chronicity, age of onset, relationship to perpetrator.
Of course, not every doctor is an HbA1c-discussing, chronicity-mentioning biomedical machine, nor every manager a blue-sky-thinking, granularity-seeking driller-down.
