chronic
IPA: krˈɑnɪk
noun
- (slang) Marijuana, typically of high quality.
- (medicine) A condition of extended duration, either continuous or marked by frequent recurrence. Sometimes implies a condition which worsens with each recurrence, though that is not inherent in the term.
- A person who is chronic, such as a criminal reoffender or a person with chronic disease.
adjective
- Of a problem, that continues over an extended period of time.
- (medicine) Prolonged or slow to heal.
- Of a person, suffering from an affliction that is prolonged or slow to heal.
- Inveterate or habitual.
- (slang) Very bad, awful.
- (informal) Extremely serious.
- (slang) Good, great; "wicked".
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Examples of "chronic" in Sentences
- Many patients hate the name chronic fatigue syndrome because they think it trivializes the condition.
- This is because the term chronic pain is a wide spreading term that means many different things to different people.
- The term "chronic" is used to indicate that this particular type of leukemia generally progresses slowly compared with the other leukemias, according to the
- Chronic Lyme is such an illnessWe use the term chronic Lyme throughout this talk, and any publications that result from this work, as it was the termuniversally preferred by the participants in our study.
- A chronic inflammation of the stomach is a very common affection and has many phases, but the term chronic gastritis is applied only to that species of inflammation occasioned and accompanied by irritation.
- Like Alan was saying earlier, we do know that there's an increased risk of developing what we call chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, which is a cause of dementia later in life that is due to repetitive head trauma earlier in life.
- Temperance advocates (and they were legion) argued that moderate drinking inevitably led to alcoholism (which they called chronic drunkenness or inebriation) in the same way that Alcoholics Anonymous today says alcohol effects the minority of drinkers who are alcoholics.
- The procedure is named after the Italian doctor who spearheaded it, Dr. Paolo Zamboni, who coined the term chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency to describe the phenomenon he believes is behind MS. The idea is that blocked or narrowed veins trigger the debilitating illness, and he developed a procedure in which tiny balloons are inserted in the veins - a form of angioplasty.
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