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CATASTROPHIC ILLNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Severe illness requiring prolonged hospitalization or recovery; usually involves high costs for hospitals and doctors and medicines
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("catastrophic illness" is a kind of...):
illness; malady; sickness; unwellness (impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism)
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