Ailment and Fever

Ailment

Ailment noun - An abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning.

Usage example: people who have AIDS are more susceptible to other ailments as well

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Fever and ailment are semantically related in sickness topic. In some cases you can use "Fever" instead a noun "Ailment".

Nearby Words: ailing, ailed

Fever noun - An abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning.

Usage example: before the days of modern medicine, when death remained a mystery, people said that someone died of a fever and left it at that

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Ailment and fever are semantically related in sickness topic. Sometimes you can use "Ailment" instead a noun "Fever".

Nearby Words: feverish, feverishly, fevered, feverous, fevering

normal	normal ailment	normal fever
regular	regular ailment	regular fever
single	single ailment	single fever
serious	serious ailment	serious fever
Other adjectives: dangerous, horrible, major, mysterious, fictional, strange, chronic, said, magical, life-threatening.

In the Community episode "Epidemiology", a number of guests at the college's Halloween party come down with a mystery ailment whose symptoms include fever and stomachaches.

Source: Definitely Just a Cold

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