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Discover LudwigThe phrase "serious ailment" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe a severe or life-threatening medical condition. Example: The doctor diagnosed Tom with a serious ailment that required immediate surgery.
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Where would they go in case of a serious ailment?
CLINICAL depression is a serious ailment, but almost everyone gets mildly depressed from time to time.
Doesn't look to be a serious ailment, more likely a scrape or blister.
Isringhausen later had a much more serious ailment to contend with: he missed the 1998 season while battling tuberculosis.
Before Marshall, Baryshnikov says he used to resort to shots of cortisone for a specific serious ailment.
The sick crew member was treated swiftly: The pain, it turned out, was not a harbinger of a serious ailment.
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An estimated 800 athletes developed serious ailments.
The practice tends to obscure the incidence of other serious ailments.
Those with more serious ailments were given cots to sleep on.
If inhaled, asbestos can cause lung cancer and other serious ailments.
Instead, they bonded over their shared experience of having parents with serious ailments.
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