Sentence examples for malady in which from inspiring English sources
David Axelrod concedes that he has a touch of Potomac fever, a malady in which the victim struggles with the notion that there's life beyond the nation's capital.
Watching him talk, I recalled the morbid enthusiasm he had displayed in the cafeteria while telling me about hwa-byung, a stress syndrome that affected middle-aged Korean women, and the dreamy look in his eyes as he went on about a Japanese malady in which the sufferer grew obsessed with his own body odor.
Four years after Sarett synthesized Compound E, now called cortisone, scientists at the Mayo Clinic used it to successfully treat rheumatoid arthritis, a malady in which immune cells gone awry attack the body's own tissue.
He followed with "Gout: The Patrician Malady" the same year, in which he and his co-author, G. S. Rousseau, looked at the disease, the patient and the surrounding culture.
A complex array of medical, emotional and social problems really can resemble a cascade in which each malady worsens another, and the net effect is a downward spiral into despondent disability.
One of the most serious maladies involving mucus is cystic fibrosis, in which an abnormally sticky form is made in excessive quantities and clogs the chest.
He articulated his theory of mental illness in Traité des maladies mentales (1860; "A Treatise on Mental Illness"), in which he coined the term demence-precoce to refer to mental degeneration.
Mental illness has been depoliticised, so that we blithely accept a situation in which depression is now the malady most treated by the NHS.
Hunter reports that Samuel Johnson visited Smart during the latter's confinement, and it was Johnson that, "on the first approaches of Mr Smart's malady, wrote several papers for a periodical publication in which that gentleman was concerned".
Knowing how many people in which areas suffer from which maladies is crucial for designing effective public health policies.
Placebos are sometimes prescribed for maladies with no known scientific treatment or in cases in which an ailment has not yet been diagnosed.
