Sentence examples for debilitating affliction from inspiring English sources

But Sam was dealt a whole other hand, stricken with a debilitating affliction.

Whooping cough is a particularly violent, prolonged, and debilitating affliction that is especially hard on infants and children.

But there were moments emblematic of the truly debilitating affliction that now seems to shroud Woods.

A cruel and debilitating affliction, iodine deficiency disease not only causes goiter, which restricts breathing and eating, but can contribute to miscarriages, stillbirths, infant mortality and deafness, she said.

In extreme cases, prosopagnosia can be a socially debilitating affliction: a mother tries to retrieve the wrong child from day care because she does not recognize her own baby; a patient is shown a photograph of a woman and wonders who it is, only to be informed that she is looking at a picture of herself.

Co-infection present a plausible explanation for the unusual and extreme lengths people went to in order to contain what was recognized as a seriously debilitating affliction.

Understanding why some people escape many of the debilitating afflictions of old age even if they die at roughly the same ages as many of their peers could be a boon to drug development, alleviate a great deal of human suffering, and help control soaring health-care costs for an aging population.

Mild TBI and PTSD, once acquired, are life-long debilitating afflictions.

Malaria, trypanosomiasis (e.g., African sleeping sickness), leishmaniasis, toxoplasmosis, and amoebic dysentery are debilitating or fatal afflictions.

She had always been rather sickly, racked by fevers, migraines interfering with her hearing and vision; her stepfather, impatient, had nicknamed her Miss Neverwell, but the year after she left university her afflictions suddenly became debilitating.

She had always been rather sickly, racked by fevers, migraines interfering with her hearing and vision; her stepfather, impatient, had nicknamed her Miss Neverwell, but the year after she left university her afflictions suddenly became debilitating.