sickness
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sickness/ˈsɪknəs/
▶noun
- 1 the state of being ill.
■ a particular type of illness or disease.
- 2 nausea or vomiting.
'sickness' also found in these Oxford entries:
ad nauseam
- altitude sickness
- Barcoo
- bedridden
- bend
- bush sickness
- caisson disease
- decompression sickness
- detain
- friendly society
- fur
- grand mal
- hyoscine
- illness
- mawkish
- morning sickness
- mountain sickness
- nausea
- nitrox
- petit mal
- promethazine
- puna
- radiation sickness
- sickness benefit
- sleeping sickness
- sleepy sickness
- social insurance
- sweating sickness
- travel-sick
- trypanosomiasis
- tsetse
