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adjective

Chronic adj.

Relating to time; according to time.

Continuing for a long time; lingering; habitual.

Chronic disease, one which is inveterate, of long continuance, or progresses slowly, in distinction from an acute disease, which speedly terminates.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... disease-entity. This is the disease known popularly as rheumatic fever, and technically as acute rheumatism or acute articular rheumatism. In fact, the commonest division is to separate the "rheumatisms" into two great groups: acute, covering the "fever" form, and chronic, containing all the others. From a purely scientific point of view, this classification has rather an undesirable degree of resemblance to General Grant's famous division of all music into two tunes: one of which was Old Hundred, and the other ...

— Preventable Diseases • Woods Hutchinson

... entirely to the use of men who have no hope of immediate cure, and are troubled with chronic ailments. The buildings are large and airy, and will accommodate ...

— Paris: With Pen and Pencil - Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business • David W. Bartlett

... their annual meeting in 1853, had to borrow chairs from an adjoining office as the sheriff had walked away with their own for debt. Even a railroad with such a territory as the Hudson River Valley, and extending from New York to Albany existed in a state of chronic dilapidation; and the New York and Harlem, which had an entrance into New York City as an asset of incalculable value, was looked upon merely as a vehicle for ...

— The Railroad Builders - A Chronicle of the Welding of the States, Volume 38 in The - Chronicles of America Series • John Moody

... inoculated a period of clinical observation must be entered upon, which should only terminate with the death of the animal. The general observations should at first and if the infection is an acute one, be made daily—later, and if the animal appears to be unaffected or if the infection is chronic, both general and special observations should be carried out at weekly intervals. If the animal appears to be still unaffected, it should be killed with chloroform vapour at the end of two or three months and a ...

— The Elements of Bacteriological Technique • John William Henry Eyre

... that while Mrs Polsue had a trick of sniffing that suggested a chronic cold in the head, Farmer Best suffered from an equally chronic obstruction of the respiratory organs, or (as he preferred to call them) his pipes. As from time to time he essayed to clear one or another of these, the resultant ...

— Nicky-Nan, Reservist • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)

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