ailment

These Y-shaped proteins occur naturally in the human body to fight off various ailments.

Always believing he could conquer his ailment, Lou had hopes, however slim, that others were writing him off too soon.

Ellis was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver in 2007, and passed away from the ailment on Dec. 19, 2008.

In 2007 Swartz wrote a blog post titled “Sick,” in which he disclosed some details about his ailment.

Is his ailment more serious—say, a heart attack or stroke or even Bell's palsy, which left his face looking contorted?

No ailment is too gruesome—and never has the expression “warts and all” been more apt.

She did not speak in her despair; she undoubtedly thought that she was again in the clutches of her ailment.

Her father, who does not want her ever to leave him, thinks her ailment physical, and vainly summons four noted physicians.

What I think you're doing is only a regular symptom of your ailment.

The general indications require the administration of iron, which has no constipating effect in this ailment.

She became rapidly worse, and a few days later the doctor pronounced her ailment meningitis.