chronic
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
chronic/ˈkrɒnɪk/
▶adjective
- 1 (of an illness) persisting for a long time or constantly recurring.
■ (of a problem) long-lasting.
■ having a bad habit: a chronic liar.
- 2 Brit. informal of a very poor quality.
– derivatives
chronically adverb,
chronicity noun.
chronically adverb,
chronicity noun.
– origin ME: from Fr. chronique, via L. from Gk khronikos ‘of time’, from khronos ‘time’.
'chronic' also found in these Oxford entries:
acute
- bilharzia
- Bright's disease
- cachexia
- cardiomyopathy
- CFS
- chronic fatigue syndrome
- chronicle
- cirrhosis
- coeliac disease
- COPD
- Crohn's disease
- delirium tremens
- dementia
- fluorosis
- free-floating
- frozen shoulder
- gammy
- general practitioner
- Gulf War syndrome
- Hashimoto's disease
- hebephrenia
- hepatitis C
- hypochondria
- inveterate
- Johne's disease
- Korsakoff's syndrome
- ME
- molluscum contagiosum
- myalgic encephalomyelitis
- myasthenia
- navicular
- Paget's disease
- plumbism
- prurigo
- psychopath
- rheumatoid arthritis
- sanatorium
- sarcoidosis
- scleroderma
- sclerosis
- sequestrum
- shock therapy
- sprue
- subacute
- thrush
- yuppie flu
