All 4 Uses of
ailment
in
The Bonesetter's Daughter
- Her worst ailment—the one she frequently complained about to Ruth, in excruciating detail—was constipation.†
Chpt 1.2ailment = illness
- Ruth's only refuge was the bathroom, and perhaps for this reason she developed numerous stomach ailments that year.†
Chpt 1.6 *ailments = illnesses
- Those folks with life-draining ailments could no longer be cured.†
Chpt 2.2
- And in Peking, there are strange ailments we have never even experienced here, maladies that could make the tips of LuLing's nose and fingers fall off.†
Chpt 2.2
Definition:
an illness