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The Sickness, 1999 book in the Animorphs series; Corey Taylor, nicknamed "The Sickness", American heavy metal musician (sic)nesses, 2010 video album by Slipknot;
African sleeping sickness: A-T Ataxia-telangiectasia: AVMs Arteriovenous malformations: B. Acronyms Diseases and disorders BA Bronchial Asthma: BBS Bardet-Biedl syndrome
This measure of sickness is contrasted with the mortality rate of a condition, which is the proportion of people dying during a given time interval. Morbidity rates are used in actuarial professions, such as health insurance, life insurance, and long-term care insurance, to determine the premiums charged to customers.
Sickness behavior is a coordinated set of adaptive behavioral changes that develop in ill individuals during the course of an infection. [1] They usually, but not always, [ 2 ] accompany fever and aid survival.
Acedia, engraving by Hieronymus Wierix, 16th century. Acedia (/ ə ˈ s iː d i ə /; also accidie or accedie / ˈ æ k s ɪ d i /, from Latin acēdia, and this from Greek ἀκηδία, "negligence", ἀ-"lack of" -κηδία "care") has been variously defined as a state of listlessness or torpor, of not caring or not being concerned with one's position or condition in the world.
The Roman Empire in 180 AD. The Antonine Plague of AD 165 to 180, also known as the Plague of Galen (after Galen, the Greek physician who described it), was a prolonged and destructive epidemic, [1] which impacted the Roman Empire.
Anna Sick (1803–1895), German composer and pianist; Emil Sick (1894–1964), American brewer and sports entrepreneur; Erwin Sick (1909–1988), German inventor and entrepreneur
Serum sickness; Serious digitalis intoxication; Setleis syndrome; Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) Severe infantile axonal neuropathy; Sex chromosome disorders; Sexual aversion disorder; Sexually transmitted disease; Sézary syndrome; Sézary's lymphoma