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“chronic illness”
An ailments that continues for a long time: A chronic illness usually lasts three months or more.
In ancient Greece, Hippocrates, the "father of medicine" distinguished diseases that were acute, that is abrupt, sharp, and brief; from those that were chronic.
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long-chronic illness
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Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies
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