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PERSIAN GULF ILLNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A medical condition of uncertain origin that affected many veterans of the 1991 Gulf War; characterized by fatigue and headache and dizziness and nausea and rashes and joint pain and respiratory disorders
Synonyms:
Gulf War syndrome; Persian Gulf illness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("Persian Gulf illness" is a kind of...):
syndrome (a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease)
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