chronicadj.

Brit.

/ˈkrɒnɪk/, U.S.

/ˈkrɑnɪk/

Forms: Also 1600s chronique, 1600s–1700s chronick(e.

Etymology: < French chronique < Latin chronicus , < Greek χρονικός , of or concerning time, < χρόνος time; see also -ic suffix. In late Latin, chronicus was extended by the physicians to qualify diseases (sense 2), for which the Greek word was χρόνιος. Caelius Aurelianus wrote a work De Morbis acutis et chronicis.

†1. Of or relating to time; chronological. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > [adjective]

chronic1604

chronical1647

temporaneous1656

timewarda1850

chronal1875

temporal1877

1604 H. Broughton Aduert. Corrupt. Handling Relig. sig. D1^v There was no Chronique observation in record before Eratosthenes..compiled one.

a. Of diseases, etc.: Lasting a long time, long-continued, lingering, inveterate; opposed to acute.

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the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring

longeOE

longsomeeOE

long of lifeOE

lastinga1225

cleaving1340

continualc1340

dwellingc1380

long-livinga1382

everlastingc1384

long-duringa1387

long-lasting?a1400

long-liveda1400

broadc1400

permanable?c1422

perseverant?a1425

permanentc1425

perdurable?a1439

continuedc1440

abiding1448

unremoved1455

eternalc1460

long-continued1464

continuing1526

long-enduring1527

enduring1532

immortal1538

diuturn?1541

veterated1547

resiant?1567

stayinga1568

well-wearinga1568

substantive1575

pertinacious1578

extant1581

ceaseless1590

marble1596

of length1597

longeval1598

diuturnal1599

nine-lived1600

chronic1601

unexhausted1602

chronical1604

endurable1607

continuant1610

indeflourishing1610

aged1611

indurant1611

continuatea1616

perennious1628

seculara1631

undiscontinueda1631

continuated1632

untransitory1632

long-spun1633

momently1641

stative1643

outliving1645

constant1653

long-descended1660

voluminousa1661

perduring1664

perdurant1671

livelong1673

perennial1676

longeve1678

consequential1681

unquenched1703

lifelong1746

momentary1755

inveterate1780

stabile1797

persistent1826

unpassing1831

all-time1846

year-long1846

teak-built1847

lengthful1855

long-term1867

long haul1873

sticky1879

week-to-week1879

perenduring1883

long-range1885

longish1889

long-time1902

long run1904

long-life1915

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > chronic

rooteda1398

confirmed1398

continual1528

inveterate?1541

veterated1547

chronic1601

chronical1604

continent cause1605

continuatea1616

radicated1631

radicate1720

settled1811

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 391 These long diseases which be called Chronique.

1655 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans (ed. 2) ii. 193 Chronic pains, which surely kill, though slow.

1788 J. C. Smyth in Med. Communications 2 174 The disease..becomes more or less acute or chronic.

1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 128 Chronic inflammations are found to differ from the acute, not only by the greater degree of mildness, but, in some instances, by a real or apparent absence of the constitutional symptoms or fever by which inflammation is usually accompanied.

1858 J. Martineau Stud. Christianity 220 Pestilence, which had become chronic in Italy.

b. So with invalid, and the like.

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1836 A. Combe Physiol. Digestion ii. i. 189 Chronic invalids and persons of a delicate habit of body.

1861 R. W. Emerson Old Age in Wks. (1906) III. 131 The chronic valetudinarian.

3. transferred. Continuous, constant. Used colloquially as a vague expression of disapproval: bad, intense, severe, objectionable; also something chronic adverbial phrase, severely, badly.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > continuing > [adjective] > continually engaged in some action

continual1462

constant1639

continuando1691

incessant1749

chronic1861

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > inveterate (of habits or attitudes)

rootedc1400

infested1536

settled1556

inveterate1563

radicated1631

entrenched1642

radicate1656

ingrained1821

engrained1843

ingrain1852

chronic1861

infibred1879

serial1947

the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [adjective] > of inferior quality or value or appearance

poorc1300

vile1526

mangya1529

fine1565

palterlya1637

scrubby1754

nice1798

shabby1805

waff-like1808

neat1824

chronic1861

tacky1862

shamblya1937

tatty1940

low-rent1966

scrungy1974

1861 J. S. Mill Considerations Representative Govt. iv. 73 A state of chronic revolution and civil war.

1864 M. B. Smedley Linnet's Trial II. iii. v. 44 Most women have a chronic horror of anything resembling a court of justice.

1871 E. F. Burr Ad Fidem viii. 142 Chronic doubts require chronic relieving.

1886 in J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era (1909) Chronic..Ceaseless, persistent. ‘Oh! Joe's chronic.’ ‘Charley's Aunt's chronic’,—said of a piece that ran perpetually.]

1904 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. 288 Oh, it's chronic 'ere of a Saturday sometimes.

1909 in J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 75/1 ‘Oh, that theatre's chronic’—means that never is a good piece seen there.

1910 H. G. Wells Hist. Mr. Polly ii. 41 It's made my eyes water something chronic.

1915 Scotsman 26 Jan. 5/3 ‘The weather is chronic,’ says a Seaforth Highlander.

1926 ‘J. J. Connington’ Death at Swaythling Court ix. 164 He puts a dash of whisky into the paraldehyde to disguise the taste, which is a chronic one, I can tell you.

1942 L. A. G. Strong Slocombe Dies xv. 67 The men in these parts are something chronic... They won't do anything till some time after we're due to start.

4. substantive = Chronic invalid, sufferer, etc.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] > chronic

chronic1886

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Aug. 11/2 We question whether the late donor intended his sanatorium to be filled with chronics.

Draft additions June 2007

slang (originally U.S., in the language of rap and hip-hop). Marijuana; spec. (a type of) high-grade or particularly potent marijuana. Also with the.

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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s) > marijuana or cannabis

bhang1598

hashish1598

cannabis1765

ganja1800

Indian hemp1803

sabzi1804

cannabin1843

deiamba1851

charas1860

liamba1861

hemp1870

cannabis resin1871

marijuana1874

kef1878

locoweed1898

weed1917

Mary Ann1925

mootah1926

muggle1926

Mary Jane1928

Mary Warner1933

Mary and Johnny1935

Indian hay1936

mu1936

mezz1937

moocah1937

grass1938

jive1938

pot1938

mary1940

reefer1944

rope1944

smoke1946

hash1948

pod1952

gear1954

green1957

smoking weed1957

boo1959

Acapulco1965

doobie1967

Mary J1967

cheeba1971

Maui Wowie1971

4201974

Maui1977

pakalolo1977

spliff1977

draw1979

kush1979

resin1980

bud1982

swag1986

puff1989

chronic1992

schwag1993

hydro1995

1992 A. Young et al. Fuck wit Dre Day (song, perf. ‘Dr. Dre’ & ‘Snoop Doggy Dog’) in Hip-hop & Rap (2003) 106 Dr. Dre droppin' chronic once again.

1993 Vibe Sept. 52/2 I don't smoke marijuana, and besides, the chronic is so potent.

1998 R. Price Freedomland i. i. 16 Coming off the George Washington Bridge,..a baggie of chronic right up on the dashboard.

2004 Toronto Star (Nexis) 3 Aug. d1 I was dealing the chronic..and I got a call to meet a regular customer.

Draft additions December 2002

chronic factitious disorder n. ( also chronic factitious disorder with physical symptoms) Psychiatry = Munchausen n.

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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > other mental illnesses

neurosis1783

mutism1824

Americanitis1882

lata1884

miryachit1884

negativism1892

obsession1892

ressentiment1896

resentment1899

pseudologia1903

echopraxia1904

complex1907

pseudo-homosexuality1908

regression1910

kleptolagnia1917

sadomasochism1919

poriomania1921

superiority complex1921

martyr complex1926

rejection1931

nemesism1938

acting out1945

catathymia1949

elective mutism1950

psychosyndrome1965

panic attack1966

Munchausen syndrome by proxy1977

Polle syndrome1977

panic disorder1978

chronic factitious disorder1980

bigorexia1985

fabricated or induced illness1994

selective mutism1999

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > neurosis > other forms of neurosis

neuromimesis1873

accident neurosis1896

suburban neurosis1938

Munchausen syndrome1951

Polle syndrome1977

chronic factitious disorder1980

fabricated or induced illness1994

1968 Arch. Gen. Psychiatry 18 169 Chronic factitious illness. Munchausen's syndrome.]

1980 Diagnostic & Statist. Man. Mental Disorders (ed. 3) 285 Chronic Factitious Disorder with Physical Symptoms, often referred to as Munchausen syndrome, is the best known and most frequently reported of the Factitious Disorders.

1989 Psychoterapy & Psychosomatics 52 164 This paper suggests that when using the original criteria by Asher, the syndrome [sc. Munchausen's] constitutes a subtype of chronic factitious disorders, specially characterized by factitious illness, peregrination, pseudologia fantastica and dramatic admission circumstances.

1994 Jrnl. Internal Med. 236 685 A 23-year-old female student exhibited all the characteristics of chronic factitious disorder with physical symptoms (Munchhausen's syndrome): deliberate simulation of illness, peregrination, fantastic pseudology and dramatic circumstances on admittance.

Draft additions August 2001

chronic fatigue n. persistent fatigue (fatigue n. 1a or 1c); (later also) short for chronic fatigue syndrome n. at Additions.

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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [noun] > specific

breathlessness1612

overfatigue1727

standstill1788

footsoreness1849

heat exhaustion1861

staleness1868

burn-out1903

chronic fatigue1908

driver fatigue1922

bonk1952

the wall1974

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [noun] > disorders of brain > inflammation of brain > encephalitis > types of

meningoencephalomyelitis1900

chronic fatigue1908

leucoencephalitis1909

sleeping sickness1918

X disease1918

sleepy sickness1922

western equine encephalitis1933

St. Louis encephalitis1934

Russian encephalitis1940

panencephalitis1950

Murray Valley encephalitis1951

Iceland disease1954

Murray Valley fever1955

myalgic encephalomyelitis1956

ME1982

1908 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 80 51 The muscle..responds only to some of the stimuli in the rapid series.., thus substituting chronic fatigue for acute exhaustion.

1947 S. H. Bartley & E. Chute Fatigue & Impairment in Man xix. 381 Chronic fatigue has long been recognized as the common accompaniment of the large majority of human ills, but, until quite recently, has been somewhat neglected as a clinical picture in its own right.

1952 Psychosomatic Med. 14 311/2 Characteristically in the patient with chronic fatigue, the stressful activity is implicit rather than explicit.

1975 Chest 67 164 They [sc. patients with periodic sleep apnoea] are chronically sleep-deprived, a manifestation expressed by daytime somnolence, chronic fatigue and often by personality disturbances marked by paranoia, agitated depression and hostility.

1990 Sydney Morning Herald 28 Apr. 6/5 No-one knows what Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is, but doctors have at last described what it is not... For sufferers whose chronic fatigue had been dismissed for years as depression, hypochondria, malingering or even ‘yuppie flu’, the acceptance is belatedly welcome.

2001 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 26 Apr. 11 Hepatitis C often causes chronic fatigue and liver cancer and just having the infection can make it difficult to get a mortgage.

Draft additions August 2001

chronic fatigue syndrome n. Medicine any syndrome characterized by a persistent feeling of fatigue; spec. a condition of unknown origin (though sometimes occurring after a viral infection) characterized by debilitating fatigue and any of a variety of other non-specific symptoms such as headache and myalgia, also called myalgic encephalomyelitis; cf. yuppie flu n. at yuppie n. Additions.

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1947 S. H. Bartley & E. Chute Fatigue & Impairment in Man xix. 388 The main complaint of these patients was that of feeling tired. They awoke in the morning feeling just as fatigued as they did on going to bed at night... The chronic-fatigue syndrome showed a tendency toward recurrence.

1957 Science 27 Sept. 611/1 In patients other than schizophrenic, DMAE produces relief of periodic headache, functional bowel distress, and chronic fatigue syndromes.

1987 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 8 Feb. 4 Experts on the Epstein-Barr virus said that while they believe there have been some people suffering a chronic fatigue syndrome, much research must be done before the cause will be clear.

1994 New Scientist 14 May 23/1 I'm not going to die, but with chronic fatigue syndrome you don't ever get your life back. It will never be the same again.

1996 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. vii. 1035/2 The nature, pathology, and aetiology of this syndrome remain controversial, so the purely descriptive term chronic fatigue syndrome is generally preferred.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	chronic
释义	chronicadj. Brit. /ˈkrɒnɪk/, U.S. /ˈkrɑnɪk/ Forms: Also 1600s chronique, 1600s–1700s chronick(e. Etymology: < French chronique < Latin chronicus , < Greek χρονικός , of or concerning time, < χρόνος time; see also -ic suffix. In late Latin, chronicus was extended by the physicians to qualify diseases (sense 2), for which the Greek word was χρόνιος. Caelius Aurelianus wrote a work De Morbis acutis et chronicis. †1. Of or relating to time; chronological. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > [adjective] chronic1604 chronical1647 temporaneous1656 timewarda1850 chronal1875 temporal1877 1604 H. Broughton Aduert. Corrupt. Handling Relig. sig. D1^v There was no Chronique observation in record before Eratosthenes..compiled one. 2. a. Of diseases, etc.: Lasting a long time, long-continued, lingering, inveterate; opposed to acute. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring longeOE longsomeeOE long of lifeOE lastinga1225 cleaving1340 continualc1340 dwellingc1380 long-livinga1382 everlastingc1384 long-duringa1387 long-lasting?a1400 long-liveda1400 broadc1400 permanable?c1422 perseverant?a1425 permanentc1425 perdurable?a1439 continuedc1440 abiding1448 unremoved1455 eternalc1460 long-continued1464 continuing1526 long-enduring1527 enduring1532 immortal1538 diuturn?1541 veterated1547 resiant?1567 stayinga1568 well-wearinga1568 substantive1575 pertinacious1578 extant1581 ceaseless1590 marble1596 of length1597 longeval1598 diuturnal1599 nine-lived1600 chronic1601 unexhausted1602 chronical1604 endurable1607 continuant1610 indeflourishing1610 aged1611 indurant1611 continuatea1616 perennious1628 seculara1631 undiscontinueda1631 continuated1632 untransitory1632 long-spun1633 momently1641 stative1643 outliving1645 constant1653 long-descended1660 voluminousa1661 perduring1664 perdurant1671 livelong1673 perennial1676 longeve1678 consequential1681 unquenched1703 lifelong1746 momentary1755 inveterate1780 stabile1797 persistent1826 unpassing1831 all-time1846 year-long1846 teak-built1847 lengthful1855 long-term1867 long haul1873 sticky1879 week-to-week1879 perenduring1883 long-range1885 longish1889 long-time1902 long run1904 long-life1915 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > chronic rooteda1398 confirmed1398 continual1528 inveterate?1541 veterated1547 chronic1601 chronical1604 continent cause1605 continuatea1616 radicated1631 radicate1720 settled1811 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 391 These long diseases which be called Chronique. 1655 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans (ed. 2) ii. 193 Chronic pains, which surely kill, though slow. 1788 J. C. Smyth in Med. Communications 2 174 The disease..becomes more or less acute or chronic. 1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 128 Chronic inflammations are found to differ from the acute, not only by the greater degree of mildness, but, in some instances, by a real or apparent absence of the constitutional symptoms or fever by which inflammation is usually accompanied. 1858 J. Martineau Stud. Christianity 220 Pestilence, which had become chronic in Italy. b. So with invalid, and the like. ΚΠ 1836 A. Combe Physiol. Digestion ii. i. 189 Chronic invalids and persons of a delicate habit of body. 1861 R. W. Emerson Old Age in Wks. (1906) III. 131 The chronic valetudinarian. 3. transferred. Continuous, constant. Used colloquially as a vague expression of disapproval: bad, intense, severe, objectionable; also something chronic adverbial phrase, severely, badly. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > [adjective] > continually engaged in some action continual1462 constant1639 continuando1691 incessant1749 chronic1861 the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > inveterate (of habits or attitudes) rootedc1400 infested1536 settled1556 inveterate1563 radicated1631 entrenched1642 radicate1656 ingrained1821 engrained1843 ingrain1852 chronic1861 infibred1879 serial1947 the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [adjective] > of inferior quality or value or appearance poorc1300 vile1526 mangya1529 fine1565 palterlya1637 scrubby1754 nice1798 shabby1805 waff-like1808 neat1824 chronic1861 tacky1862 shamblya1937 tatty1940 low-rent1966 scrungy1974 1861 J. S. Mill Considerations Representative Govt. iv. 73 A state of chronic revolution and civil war. 1864 M. B. Smedley Linnet's Trial II. iii. v. 44 Most women have a chronic horror of anything resembling a court of justice. 1871 E. F. Burr Ad Fidem viii. 142 Chronic doubts require chronic relieving. 1886 in J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era (1909) Chronic..Ceaseless, persistent. ‘Oh! Joe's chronic.’ ‘Charley's Aunt's chronic’,—said of a piece that ran perpetually.] 1904 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. 288 Oh, it's chronic 'ere of a Saturday sometimes. 1909 in J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 75/1 ‘Oh, that theatre's chronic’—means that never is a good piece seen there. 1910 H. G. Wells Hist. Mr. Polly ii. 41 It's made my eyes water something chronic. 1915 Scotsman 26 Jan. 5/3 ‘The weather is chronic,’ says a Seaforth Highlander. 1926 ‘J. J. Connington’ Death at Swaythling Court ix. 164 He puts a dash of whisky into the paraldehyde to disguise the taste, which is a chronic one, I can tell you. 1942 L. A. G. Strong Slocombe Dies xv. 67 The men in these parts are something chronic... They won't do anything till some time after we're due to start. 4. substantive = Chronic invalid, sufferer, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] > chronic chronic1886 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Aug. 11/2 We question whether the late donor intended his sanatorium to be filled with chronics. Draft additions June 2007 slang (originally U.S., in the language of rap and hip-hop). Marijuana; spec. (a type of) high-grade or particularly potent marijuana. Also with the. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s) > marijuana or cannabis bhang1598 hashish1598 cannabis1765 ganja1800 Indian hemp1803 sabzi1804 cannabin1843 deiamba1851 charas1860 liamba1861 hemp1870 cannabis resin1871 marijuana1874 kef1878 locoweed1898 weed1917 Mary Ann1925 mootah1926 muggle1926 Mary Jane1928 Mary Warner1933 Mary and Johnny1935 Indian hay1936 mu1936 mezz1937 moocah1937 grass1938 jive1938 pot1938 mary1940 reefer1944 rope1944 smoke1946 hash1948 pod1952 gear1954 green1957 smoking weed1957 boo1959 Acapulco1965 doobie1967 Mary J1967 cheeba1971 Maui Wowie1971 4201974 Maui1977 pakalolo1977 spliff1977 draw1979 kush1979 resin1980 bud1982 swag1986 puff1989 chronic1992 schwag1993 hydro1995 1992 A. Young et al. Fuck wit Dre Day (song, perf. ‘Dr. Dre’ & ‘Snoop Doggy Dog’) in Hip-hop & Rap (2003) 106 Dr. Dre droppin' chronic once again. 1993 Vibe Sept. 52/2 I don't smoke marijuana, and besides, the chronic is so potent. 1998 R. Price Freedomland i. i. 16 Coming off the George Washington Bridge,..a baggie of chronic right up on the dashboard. 2004 Toronto Star (Nexis) 3 Aug. d1 I was dealing the chronic..and I got a call to meet a regular customer. Draft additions December 2002 chronic factitious disorder n. ( also chronic factitious disorder with physical symptoms) Psychiatry = Munchausen n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > other mental illnesses neurosis1783 mutism1824 Americanitis1882 lata1884 miryachit1884 negativism1892 obsession1892 ressentiment1896 resentment1899 pseudologia1903 echopraxia1904 complex1907 pseudo-homosexuality1908 regression1910 kleptolagnia1917 sadomasochism1919 poriomania1921 superiority complex1921 martyr complex1926 rejection1931 nemesism1938 acting out1945 catathymia1949 elective mutism1950 psychosyndrome1965 panic attack1966 Munchausen syndrome by proxy1977 Polle syndrome1977 panic disorder1978 chronic factitious disorder1980 bigorexia1985 fabricated or induced illness1994 selective mutism1999 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > neurosis > other forms of neurosis neuromimesis1873 accident neurosis1896 suburban neurosis1938 Munchausen syndrome1951 Polle syndrome1977 chronic factitious disorder1980 fabricated or induced illness1994 1968 Arch. Gen. Psychiatry 18 169 Chronic factitious illness. Munchausen's syndrome.] 1980 Diagnostic & Statist. Man. Mental Disorders (ed. 3) 285 Chronic Factitious Disorder with Physical Symptoms, often referred to as Munchausen syndrome, is the best known and most frequently reported of the Factitious Disorders. 1989 Psychoterapy & Psychosomatics 52 164 This paper suggests that when using the original criteria by Asher, the syndrome [sc. Munchausen's] constitutes a subtype of chronic factitious disorders, specially characterized by factitious illness, peregrination, pseudologia fantastica and dramatic admission circumstances. 1994 Jrnl. Internal Med. 236 685 A 23-year-old female student exhibited all the characteristics of chronic factitious disorder with physical symptoms (Munchhausen's syndrome): deliberate simulation of illness, peregrination, fantastic pseudology and dramatic circumstances on admittance. Draft additions August 2001 chronic fatigue n. persistent fatigue (fatigue n. 1a or 1c); (later also) short for chronic fatigue syndrome n. at Additions. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [noun] > specific breathlessness1612 overfatigue1727 standstill1788 footsoreness1849 heat exhaustion1861 staleness1868 burn-out1903 chronic fatigue1908 driver fatigue1922 bonk1952 the wall1974 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [noun] > disorders of brain > inflammation of brain > encephalitis > types of meningoencephalomyelitis1900 chronic fatigue1908 leucoencephalitis1909 sleeping sickness1918 X disease1918 sleepy sickness1922 western equine encephalitis1933 St. Louis encephalitis1934 Russian encephalitis1940 panencephalitis1950 Murray Valley encephalitis1951 Iceland disease1954 Murray Valley fever1955 myalgic encephalomyelitis1956 ME1982 1908 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 80 51 The muscle..responds only to some of the stimuli in the rapid series.., thus substituting chronic fatigue for acute exhaustion. 1947 S. H. Bartley & E. Chute Fatigue & Impairment in Man xix. 381 Chronic fatigue has long been recognized as the common accompaniment of the large majority of human ills, but, until quite recently, has been somewhat neglected as a clinical picture in its own right. 1952 Psychosomatic Med. 14 311/2 Characteristically in the patient with chronic fatigue, the stressful activity is implicit rather than explicit. 1975 Chest 67 164 They [sc. patients with periodic sleep apnoea] are chronically sleep-deprived, a manifestation expressed by daytime somnolence, chronic fatigue and often by personality disturbances marked by paranoia, agitated depression and hostility. 1990 Sydney Morning Herald 28 Apr. 6/5 No-one knows what Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is, but doctors have at last described what it is not... For sufferers whose chronic fatigue had been dismissed for years as depression, hypochondria, malingering or even ‘yuppie flu’, the acceptance is belatedly welcome. 2001 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 26 Apr. 11 Hepatitis C often causes chronic fatigue and liver cancer and just having the infection can make it difficult to get a mortgage. Draft additions August 2001 chronic fatigue syndrome n. Medicine any syndrome characterized by a persistent feeling of fatigue; spec. a condition of unknown origin (though sometimes occurring after a viral infection) characterized by debilitating fatigue and any of a variety of other non-specific symptoms such as headache and myalgia, also called myalgic encephalomyelitis; cf. yuppie flu n. at yuppie n. Additions. ΚΠ 1947 S. H. Bartley & E. Chute Fatigue & Impairment in Man xix. 388 The main complaint of these patients was that of feeling tired. They awoke in the morning feeling just as fatigued as they did on going to bed at night... The chronic-fatigue syndrome showed a tendency toward recurrence. 1957 Science 27 Sept. 611/1 In patients other than schizophrenic, DMAE produces relief of periodic headache, functional bowel distress, and chronic fatigue syndromes. 1987 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 8 Feb. 4 Experts on the Epstein-Barr virus said that while they believe there have been some people suffering a chronic fatigue syndrome, much research must be done before the cause will be clear. 1994 New Scientist 14 May 23/1 I'm not going to die, but with chronic fatigue syndrome you don't ever get your life back. It will never be the same again. 1996 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. vii. 1035/2 The nature, pathology, and aetiology of this syndrome remain controversial, so the purely descriptive term chronic fatigue syndrome is generally preferred. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1601
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