Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of long duration; continuing.
- adjective Lasting for a long period of time or marked by frequent recurrence, as certain diseases.
- adjective Subject to a habit or pattern of behavior for a long time.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining or relating to time; having reference to time. Specifically
- Continuing a long time; inveterate or of long continuance, as a disease; hence, mild as to intensity and slow as to progress: in pathology, opposed to acute.
- Also, rarely, chronical.
- noun A chronicle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to time; according to time.
- adjective Continuing for a long time; lingering; habitual.
- adjective one which is inveterate, of long continuance, or progresses slowly, in distinction from an
acute disease, which speedly terminates.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of a problem, that continues over an extended period of time.
- adjective medicine Prolonged or slow to heal.
- adjective Of a person,
suffering from an affliction that is prolonged or slow to heal. - adjective
Inveterate orhabitual . - adjective informal Very
bad ,awful . - adjective informal Extremely
serious . - adjective informal Good, great, as in "wicked"
- noun A chronic one
- noun slang
Marijuana , typically of high quality. - noun medicine A condition of extended duration, either continuous or marked by frequent recurrence. Sometimes implies a condition which worsens with each recurrence, though that is not
inherent in the term.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of long duration
- adjective habitual
- adjective being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Many patients hate the name chronic fatigue syndrome because they think it trivializes the condition.
The Puzzle of Chronic Fatigue Amy Dockser Marcus 2011
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A chronic inflammation of the stomach is a very common affection and has many phases, but the term chronic gastritis is applied only to that species of inflammation occasioned and accompanied by irritation.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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The term "chronic" is used to indicate that this particular type of leukemia generally progresses slowly compared with the other leukemias, according to the
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The procedure is named after the Italian doctor who spearheaded it, Dr. Paolo Zamboni, who coined the term chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency to describe the phenomenon he believes is behind MS. The idea is that blocked or narrowed veins trigger the debilitating illness, and he developed a procedure in which tiny balloons are inserted in the veins - a form of angioplasty.
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The term "chronic" is used to indicate that this particular type of leukemia generally progresses slowly compared with the other leukemias, according to the
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Chronic Lyme is such an illnessWe use the term chronic Lyme throughout this talk, and any publications that result from this work, as it was the termuniversally preferred by the participants in our study.
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This is because the term chronic pain is a wide spreading term that means many different things to different people.
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Temperance advocates (and they were legion) argued that moderate drinking inevitably led to alcoholism (which they called chronic drunkenness or inebriation) in the same way that Alcoholics Anonymous today says alcohol effects the minority of drinkers who are alcoholics.
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Temperance advocates (and they were legion) argued that moderate drinking inevitably led to alcoholism (which they called chronic drunkenness or inebriation) in the same way that Alcoholics Anonymous today says alcohol effects the minority of drinkers who are alcoholics.
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Like Alan was saying earlier, we do know that there's an increased risk of developing what we call chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, which is a cause of dementia later in life that is due to repetitive head trauma earlier in life.
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