In an earlier work, he is credited to be the first to describe ectopic pregnancy in 963, in those days a fatal affliction.

As new treatments have begun to move the illness from a fatal affliction to chronic disease, the level of care has taken on greater importance.

Unfortunately, Jebsen had been diagnosed with an aggressive case of the then chronic and fatal affliction of tuberculosis.

The babies receive no special treatment for their infections until, months or years later, they develop the first symptoms of their fatal affliction.

There is another Bird-like trait: Smith is not a great leaper, which is never a fatal affliction in the women's better-grounded game.

More than a third said they would not reject a donor with a family history of Huntington's disease, a progressive and ultimately fatal affliction that a man can unknowingly pass on to his child.

Any life-threatening or fatal affliction has the potential to focus the human mind, if only because it demonstrates with a singular clarity how short and precious life is.

A "concerned neighbor" is really the local doomsayer who decrees that a patient has dropsy, apoplexy - or has "fallen ill" with the nameless fatal affliction.

He is also credited to be the first to describe ectopic pregnancy in 963, in those days a fatal affliction.

To be dumb is merely a fatal affliction; but the King of Sulaco had words enough to give him all the mysterious weight of a taciturn force.