Both Uses of
chronic
in
Arrowsmith
- She's a chronic carrier of the bugs.†
Chpt 18 *
- He found that rats fed with phage failed to come down with plague; that after phage-feeding, Bacillus pestis disappeared from carrier rats which, without themselves being killed thereby, harbored and spread chronic plague; and that, finally, he could cure the disease.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(chronic) of something bad: long-lasting or happening all the time -- especially of disease