Then again, when one takes into account the potentially astronomical costs to a person of living with a severe affliction, plus the costs of (lifelong) care for severely afflicted persons, even high costs of tests and interventions may nonetheless be relatively proportionate.
Severely afflicted animals usually die.
Burt's troubled family seems to be similarly, if not as severely, afflicted by history.
The other, Anna Rachel Singerr), is a skinny bundle of nerves severely afflicted with psoriasis.
In fascination and awe, I watched dozens of operations on severely afflicted children, mainly with cleft mouth and palate.
A handful of states, including Maryland, have established a Medicaid autism waiver to allow parents of severely afflicted children to obtain relevant services independent of income.
Infants of those severely afflicted through their pregnancies — the condition is known medically as hyperemesis gravidarum — typically have lower than normal birth weights for their gestational age.
"Just as with every other sector in the country, the journalists' pension rights are severely afflicted by the recession," Mr. Voitsidis said.
This often leads into a conversation about a friend or relative who is severely afflicted as the result of a stroke, head trauma, or disease such as Parkinson's or dementia.
Since a personally devastating experience some months before, Anna has become cripplingly agoraphobic: Many of us — the most severely afflicted, the ones grappling with post-traumatic stress disorder — are housebound, hidden from the messy, massy world outside.
