0 If a problem or illness afflicts a person or thing, they suffer from it: --
1 to make someone or something suffer physically or mentally: --
Moreover, it may offer a glimmer of hope for treatment for those who are afflicted with these diseases.
From a clinical standpoint, mitral incompetence and/or stenosis may obscure the lesion afflicting the tricuspid valve.
The fever with which she was afflicted represents the vices.
While still living, the miser had observed a spoiled and precocious girl afflicting her passive father.
I would argue that the posthuman diva is afflicted with a terminal sexuality.
But occasionally he is afflicted with a desire to help someone.
The most common acquired lesion is rheumatic fever, which usually afflicts the mitral rather than the tricupsid valve.
In 1819, he called for the establishment of spaces exclusively devoted to the treatment of the mentally afflicted.