1.1often with adjective or noun modifierA particular type of illness or disease.
‘botulism causes fodder sickness of horses’
‘a woman suffering an incurable sickness’
‘Viruses are responsible for some minor sicknesses like colds or chickenpox as well as extremely serious diseases like smallpox or HIV / AIDS.’
‘Farmers living in fumigated areas complain of myriad sicknesses, including skin problems and birth defects.’
‘Antibiotics are strong medicines used to treat sicknesses called infections.’
‘In the mountains, lots of fluid helps your body adjust to changing altitudes and prevents associated sicknesses, headaches, and pulmonary edema.’
‘Dressed up as HIV / AIDS, a variety of old sicknesses have been reclassified.’
‘The unit also deals with more mundane sicknesses, like cases of diarrhea.’
‘Water-related diseases cause 80 percent of all the world's sicknesses, in the forms of hepatitis A, malaria, diarrhea, dysentery and schistosomiasis.’
‘Aging has always been the cause of many sicknesses, including arthritis.’
‘Europeans say use condoms, but there are sexual sicknesses that condoms cannot stop.’
‘If soldiers use improper or worn clothing for even a short time, the chance of developing altitude and cold-related sicknesses increases significantly.’
‘Nurses, doctors and management professionals are needed, particularly those with a background in foreign affairs, languages and tropical sicknesses.’
‘During the conflict, frostbite, sun-burn, and other high-altitude sicknesses caused large numbers of casualties.’
‘The demands for care that are reported are primarily visits to the doctor because of respiratory and digestive sicknesses and accidents.’
‘The British Medical Journal said recently a poll of its readers had identified almost 200 conditions that are not real sicknesses.’
‘Between bearing children and enduring lingering sicknesses, Susanna was unable to do much to supplement his income.’
‘When it came to injuries and minor sicknesses, I trusted him with my life.’
‘Right here at home, ‘country’ people have a lot of bush remedies for various sicknesses.’
‘Many a time I found myself aghast at some of the personal details these writers exposed about their lives - drug use, fighting sicknesses such as Cancer or AIDS or their revelations of family issues or other domestic crises.’
‘And you find you can't eliminate all the pests in the world, nor can you eliminate the pests in your own body, like cancers and other sicknesses.’
‘Is this a consequence of sicknesses like AIDS and/or moral/sexual repression?’
2The feeling or fact of being affected with nausea or vomiting.
‘she felt a wave of sickness wash over her’
‘travel sickness’
‘There may also be nausea, sickness or diarrhoea, and a feeling of exhaustion.’
‘All the children were suffering from sickness, vomiting and twitching.’
‘York District Hospital managers today appealed for visitors who have suffered sickness and diarrhoea to stay away from its grounds.’
‘Now people who have suffered from diarrhoea or sickness within 48 hours of their intended visit to the hospital have been urged to stay away.’
‘The arrested man vomited up blood, not drugs, and suffered diarrhoea and sickness for a week following this incident.’
‘She is in her eighties, and suffering from sickness and diarrhoea.’
‘She said he had suffered sickness and diarrhoea the day before he died.’
‘They were very ill when they were born and suffered from sickness and diarrhoea.’
‘Tasting as bad as it looked it was hard to swallow and even then it hit his stomach hard washing waves of sickness through him.’
‘A wave of sickness washed over Aydah as he realized that what she was saying was absolutely true.’
‘A knock to the head can cause symptoms such as loss of consciousness, light-headedness, dizziness, nausea, and sickness.’
‘There are also more immediate benefits such as prevention of nausea and sickness caused by iron overload.’
‘Bites from snakes can also contain venom, causing the symptoms of diarrhoea and sickness.’
‘With this regimen, he had diarrhoea and sickness, and the acute attacks of gout continued.’
‘The fact that father's sickness was exacerbated if not caused by over-indulgence in Mekhong is neither here nor there.’
‘Just as she closed the door she felt a wave of sickness wash over her.’
‘Lauren runs over to her mother and puts a hand to her mouth, hoping to stop the feeling of sickness that is washing over her.’
‘Her problems started when young thirteen year old Ann was sent home from Clough House suffering sickness.’
‘The tot had been suffering from sickness and a cold and had been closely watched by his parents throughout the night.’
‘Hepatitis A is a viral infection that causes fever, sickness, stomach pain, vomiting and eventually jaundice.’