chronic disease

Cultural  

1. A disease of long duration. (Compare acute disease.)

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Example Sentences

He complained that the focus on measles was overshadowing his work to fight chronic disease, which he said is “killing our country.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

Obesity itself is a complex chronic disease that affects the body in many ways.

From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026

“This is a chronic disease and a deadly disease,” Northup added.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 15, 2026

The new guidance explicitly advised Americans to avoid highly processed packaged food such as chips, cookies, and candy, calling them out as the core driver of chronic disease.

From Barron's • Jan. 7, 2026

But with the cutbacks, syphilis increasingly became a chronic disease, and the disease’s carriers had three or four or five times longer to pass on their infection.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell