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Example sentences for "chronic"

Lexicographically close words:
chromogenic; chromos; chromosome; chromosomes; chromosphere; chronical; chronically; chronicle; chronicled; chronicler
  1. Chronic high inflation is Turkey's most serious economic problem, leading to high interest rates and the rapid depreciation of the Turkish lira.

  2. The bulk of meat, vegetable, and grain requirements must be imported, contributing to a chronic trade deficit that requires large annual transfers of aid from France.

  3. Five consecutive years of poor harvests, coupled with distribution problems, have led to chronic food shortages.

  4. Over the same period, inflation has fallen sharply and chronic trade deficits have been transformed into annual surpluses.

  5. A wine-glassful, or more, 2 or 3 times a day; in chronic coughs and chronic skin diseases, and in most of those cases wherein sarsaparilla proves useful.

  6. In habitual or chronic constipation, accompanied by indigestion, clay-coloured stools, and a feeling of oppression after food has been taken, it acts with almost specific certainty.

  7. Aperient and diaphoretic; in obstinate skin diseases and chronic obstructions of the liver.

  8. A herbal lemonade to heal all chronic and scrofulous diseases.

  9. Buchu is principally employed in chronic affections of the urino-genital organs, especially that of the mucous membrane of the bladder, attended with copious discharge of mucus.

  10. Cod-liver oil has acquired much reputation for its remedial powers in pulmonary consumption, scrofulous and other glandular affections, chronic gout and rheumatism, certain skin diseases, and several other ailments.

  11. Given in liver affections, chronic dysentery, diarrh[oe]a, and typhus.

  12. The carnauba root likewise has a diuretic power, and possesses unusual efficacy, in the cure of acute and chronic blennorrh[oe]as.

  13. On the negative side, Senegal faces deep-seated urban problems of chronic unemployment, juvenile delinquency, and drug addiction.

  14. The chronic energy shortages Armenia suffered in recent years have been largely offset by the energy supplied by one of its nuclear power plants at Metsamor.

  15. To me the former conveys the idea of a temporary shortness of funds; the latter of a chronic state of want.

  16. The quack, even, would know cholic from consumption, diarrhæa from dropsy; so any man of sense would be able to distinguish between a case of chronic moral disease and a case of partial or temporary paralysis of the moral faculty!

  17. The remedy was doubtless severe, but the disease was chronic and the improvement marked and rapid.

  18. The general arrangement of the church is a pathetic protest against chronic insecurity and persecution.

  19. Sir Alfred Garrod has urged the claims of this drug in the treatment of chronic gout.

  20. The aperient action, which it exerts less markedly than other members of its class, renders it useful in the treatment of chronic constipation.

  21. The drug is useful both in acute and chronic sore throat, the mixture, according to Sir Lauder Brunton, being more effective than the tincture.

  22. Both in this disease and in other forms of chronic arthritis guaiacum may be given in combination with iodides, which it often enables the patient to tolerate.

  23. Morgan, accompanied by his pet patient with the chronic tic, whom he had talked into exile, was on the steamboat on his way to Ostend.

  24. Mr. Prickett was a believer in homeeopathy, and declared, to the indignation of all the apothecaries round Holborn, that he had been cured of a chronic rheumatism by Dr.

  25. Worry sometimes develops into hysteria; again it takes the form of hypochondria or chronic blues.

  26. Chronic ailments require long treatments--making long bills and many visits for the quack doctor.

  27. That is to say, such questions as are propounded by chronic croakers: Will the city be rebuilt?

  28. There were two forms of insanitary evil to be combated: one the chronic insanitary condition of the masses of the people, the other the invasion of the country by some exceptional or unusual epidemic disease.

  29. Of the digestive tract:--Chronic stomach and intestinal catarrh, Dyspepsia.

  30. Description: Compound of several herbs (powdered) approved by the celebrated Kneipp in cases of chronic constipation.

  31. In extremely chronic cases use my Laxagen Tea in case of emergency.

  32. The dissolving effect of packs of long duration is most noticeable in chronic diseases.

  33. In case of chronic depression, we should by no means underestimate the importance of that comfortable feeling induced by the exercise of electronal vibrations, which supervenes upon properly administered massage.

  34. In chronic diseases a gradual return to a lower temperature by about 2-1/2 degrees per week is advisable.

  35. Regarding the same diseases in the chronic form, the special diet lists are given under Forms IV, V and VI.

  36. The acute and chronic forms of stomach and intestinal disease, especially, belong to this group, and have consequently received special attention.

  37. Hence, a coated tongue affords a valuable indication in making a correct diagnosis, especially in case of chronic catarrh of the stomach, this being one of the main causes of depression, and melancholia, as stated by Piderit.

  38. This compensatory change is found in all chronic anaemias, no matter what their cause may be, except in some rare cases in which the marrow does not react.

  39. Chronic cystitis is the condition left when the acute symptoms have passed away, but it is liable at any moment to resume the acute condition.

  40. Chronic prostatitis is a legacy from a recent or long-past attack of gonorrhoea.

  41. The first, known as lymphatic leucaemia or lymphaemia, may be acute, and prove fatal in a few weeks or even days with rapidly advancing anaemia, or may be chronic and last for one or two years or longer.

  42. These are the castings from the long tubular glands, and are characteristic of chronic inflammation of the prostate.

  43. Thus, an individual labouring under a severe chronic disease will not be subject to the invasion of an autumnal dysentery, or any other slight epidemic.

  44. In support of this doctrine, Hahnemann adduces ninety-five cases recorded by medical writers, in which the disappearance of the itch was followed by various acute and chronic maladies.

  45. Depression, on the contrary, will produce a languid flow of the vital stream, congestion, and chronic diseases.

  46. The island had been the scene of chronic insurrections all through the nineteenth century.

  47. But the acute disease from which Europe suffers is more or less chronic in the Balkans, where elemental human nature has never been thoroughly disciplined and chastened in the school of peaceful political life and experience.

  48. A chronic abscess, or fistula of the coronet, in a horse's foot, resulting from inflammation of the tissues investing the coffin bone.

  49. Affected with a kind of chronic laminitis in which there is a growth of soft spongy horn between the coffin bone and the hoof wall.

  50. And allowing both these to be true, neither has the remotest affinity to the third new doctrine, that which declares seven eighths of all chronic diseases to be owing to Psora.

  51. Or in translation, 'I commend especially riding on horseback in country air, every day, by preference in the morning hours, by the aid of which horseback riding I have driven off chronic diseases which were almost incurable.

  52. It not only laid claim to wonderful powers of its own, but it declared the common practice to be attended with the most positively injurious effects, that by it acute diseases are aggravated, and chronic diseases rendered incurable.

  53. The following account of his mode of preparing his medicines is from his work on Chronic Diseases, which has not, I believe, yet been translated into English.

  54. These are the three cardinal doctrines of Hahnemann, as laid down in those standard works of Homoeopathy, the "Organon" and the "Treatise on Chronic Diseases.

  55. Weakness had made him querulous, as it does all of us, and he piped his grievances to me in a thin voice, with that finish of detail which chronic invalidism alone can command.

  56. The third doctrine, that Psora, the other name of which you remember, is the cause of the great majority of chronic diseases, is a startling one, to say the least.

  57. In Ireland, therefore, the remaining twenty years of Spenser's short life were for the most part spent, amid distressing scenes of English oppression and chronic insurrection among the native Irish.

  58. During this period Steele was married twice in rather rapid succession to wealthy ladies whose fortunes served only very temporarily to respite him from his chronic condition of debt and bailiff's duns.

  59. In the wards were to be found patients who had been there for months, prostrated either by chronic illness or stubborn wounds,--mere human wrecks, bones and breath alone remaining of once rugged frames and constitutions.

  60. The only fault of these excellent old remedies is, that they never cure chronic cases of inefficiency, whether it be constitutional or contracted.

  61. It must be borne in mind that these acute and definite troubles spring up from the surface of an ill-defined but chronic anxiety, from which very few of the cottagers are free for any length of time.

  62. This is merely an access of the complaint Ireland has been suffering under during the lifetime of the oldest man in this House, that of chronic insurrection.

  63. He did not at that time attribute his sore throat entirely to the climate, but thought it a chronic derangement that would utterly unfit him for a preacher.

  64. There did indeed remain a chronic state of disorder in Southeastern Kansas; but this was local and exceptional.

  65. Sidenote: Breathing and Posture] Breathing exercises are also very useful for correcting the chronic evils of bad posture.

  66. The mucous membrane of the nose is intolerant of watery solutions, and a chronic congested condition or even infection of air cavities in the skull can be brought about by the constant use of sprays and douches.

  67. Many of the large force of girls and women were accustomed to dance until late in the night, bringing on a condition of chronic fatigue.

  68. The insidious encroachment of the chronic diseases that sap the vitality of the individual and impair the efficiency of the race is a matter of increasing importance.

  69. Pain in the feet, legs and back, often mistaken for rheumatism, and improperly treated with drugs and liniment, chronic general fatigue and nervous depression are often due to this rather common affection.

  70. This heavy and increasing loss from chronic disease occurs among our most valuable lives--those of the breadwinners.

  71. During the twelvemonth pre- ceding this time he had been enabled by sustained efforts of industry and chronic good spirits to lease the small sheep farm of which Norcombe Hill was a portion, and stock it with two hundred sheep.

  72. There burnt upon her face when she met the light of the candles the flush and excitement which were little less than chronic with her now.

  73. Bathsheba went home, her mind occupied with a new trouble, which being rather harassing than deadly was calculated to do good by diverting her from the chronic gloom of her life.

  74. To the shepherd, the note of the sheep" chronic sound that only makes itself noticed by ceasing ever distant, that all is well in the fold.

  75. It was in a state of chronic constitutional indignation.


  76. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chronic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abiding; accepted; accustomed; aged; ancient; antique; chronic; confirmed; constant; continuing; customary; durable; enduring; established; evergreen; fast; fixed; habitual; hardy; immutable; implanted; incorrigible; inculcated; infixed; ingrained; instilled; inveterate; irreversible; lasting; nagging; perdurable; perennial; permanent; perpetual; persistent; remaining; rooted; settled; stable; steadfast; thorough; tough; unfading; usual; vital; wonted


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    chronic alcoholism; chronic bronchitis; chronic cases; chronic catarrh; chronic constipation; chronic disease; chronic diseases; chronic form; chronic inflammation; chronic interstitial; chronic nephritis; chronic poisoning; chronic rheumatism; chronicle history