1 a condition in which the body or mind is harmed because an organ or part is unable to work as it usually does; a disease or sickness: --
In order to eliminate such effects, we conducted a partial correlation analysis controlling for the illness duration.
The median time from onset of illness in the first patient until investigation of the outbreak was 27 days (range 0 -161).
The duration of illness was less than 3 days for all cases.
For some proponents of patient autonomy, control involved not only becoming informed - understanding one's illness and knowing what to expect - but making decisions as well.
Healing illnesses requires understanding what diseases mean to people.
These findings tended to revert to normal in the third month of illness.
That is, they reflect a primary deficit, not secondary to other aspects of the illness (clinical symptoms) or other treatment-related factors (medication effects).
Although those with more moderate illness remained in the community, they were not necessarily recognized as having a mental illness.
