chronic
chronic (krän′ik)
adjective
- lasting a long time or recurring often
- having had an ailment for a long time a chronic patient
- continuing indefinitely; perpetual; constant a chronic worry
- by habit, custom, etc.; habitual; inveterate a chronic complainer
Etymology: Fr cronique < L chronicus < Gr chronikos, of time < chronos, time
noun
a chronic patient
chronic
modif.
chronic suggests long duration or frequent recurrence and is used especially of diseases or habits that resist all efforts to eradicate them chronic sinusitis; inveterate implies firm establishment as a result of continued indulgence over a long period of time an inveterate liar; confirmed suggests fixedness in some condition or practice, often from a deep-seated aversion to change a confirmed bachelor; hardened implies fixed tendencies and a callous indifference to emotional or moral considerations a hardened criminal
Converse of object
- become: They may become chronic with serious loss of blood.
- have: Especially as I have had a chronic and at times debilitating illness for the last 15 years.
Modifies a noun
- bronchitis: He died from the chronic bronchitis that his touch of gas in March 1918 had given him.
- pain: Chronic acute pain can last for months or years.
- illness: The nature of practice nurse work in relation to chronic illness also seems to be evolving rapidly.
- syndrome: He faked the symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome to evade active service.
- disease: Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease caused by too much glucose in your blood.
- leukemia: Much less is known about the effects in chronic lymphocytic leukemia ( CLL ).
Modifying Another Word
- especially: Skeletal pathology Numerous pathological conditions, especially chronic, long lasting disease, affect the human skeleton.
- particularly: My own experience is as a recipient of psychiatry where these problems are particularly chronic.
- often: They ere categorized mostly as schizophrenic, often chronic ( especially if inherited from the previous regime ).
- usually: It is usually chronic, with intermittent acute attacks.
- only: Only chronic heart disease produces more disability ' : Dr. Ben Green, Consultant in Psychological Medicine, Halton Hospital.
- about: Learn all about chronic fatigue syndrome and those affected by this disorder.
Noun used with modifier
- term: More than 17 million people nationally suffer with long term chronic illness - and that means about 5,000 in Milton Keynes.
- finance: New Millenium, finances chronic, Shanghai and New York the perfect tonic.
Used with adjective complement
- become: If the condition becomes chronic the cervix becomes swollen and enlarged and may contain cysts that may also become infected.
Preposition: under
- investment: And Colm Ryan definitely has the last word: Irish roads have suffered from years of chronic under investment.
- funding: The University of Ulster is mounting a high-profile lobbying campaign to reverse the chronic under funding of university research in Northern Ireland.
Browse dictionary entries near chronic
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