| 单词 | chronic fatigue syndrome |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschronic fatigue syndrome 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. < as lemmas |
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