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MALAISE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression)
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("malaise" is a kind of...):
discomfort; uncomfortableness (the state of being tense and feeling pain)
Context examples:
Vasculitis due to allergic reaction, marked by such cutaneous lesions as papules, macules, vesicles, urticarial wheals, purpura, and small ulcers, and accompanied by itching and usually a slight fever and malaise.
(Allergic Cutaneous Angiitis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
It is characterized by an acute and chronic phase; in the acute phase patients may have fever, malaise, and swelling at the site of the insect bite.
(Chagas Disease, NCI Thesaurus)
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