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.