Converse of object

• sleep: The impact of sleeping sickness is not just of concern for areas where the disease is endemic.

• relieve: Our separate publication CC6: The Relief of Sickness gives further guidance on the different ways charities can relieve sickness.

• heal: Perhaps connected with this was the belief that sacred waters could also heal sickness, especially of the eye.

• sweat: Influenza was common, referred to as the ' sweating sickness ' .

• alleviate: Our objective is to alleviate sickness and illness and find treatments and cures for the medical conditions which are collectively called Down's syndrome.

Adjective modifier

• acute: Acute mountain sickness Acute mountain sickness is the name given to two life-threatening complications of acute altitude sickness.

• sleepy: Sleepy sickness was brought to popular attention by the Hollywood film ' Awakenings ' starring Robert de Niro.

• equine: Some aspects of the epidemiology of equine grass sickness.

• chronic: In the UK, respiratory conditions are the third commonest cause of chronic sickness in working people aged 45 - 64 years.

• long-term: Support sick employees Long-term sickness must be handled sensitively.

• African: The diseases, which include African sleeping sickness, Chagas ' disease and leishmaniasis, are among the most neglected in the world.

Modifies a noun

• absence: Details of how sickness absence should be notified should be included in the staff handbook.

• absenteeism: Perhaps not surprisingly, sickness absenteeism for the preceding 24 months is 0 % .

• tablet: So remember to take your motion sickness tablets beforehand.

Noun used with modifier

• decompression: Women are more at risk of decompression sickness than men.

• altitude: Danger signals for altitude sickness Danger signals usually develop in the first 36 hours.

• sleeping: Sleeping sickness was first described in the fourteenth century in what is now the country of Mali.

• motion: Motion sickness provides a unique setting for the study of nausea.

• simulator: The study, completed in 1996 ( 2 ), highlighted such side effects as simulator sickness, disorientation and physical discomfort.

• morning: Morning sickness: You will probably feel sick in the morning for about a six-week period, starting about two months into your pregnancy.