Both Uses
ailment
in
Unbroken, by Hillenbrand
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- Because the POW diet was severely deficient in sodium, leaving many men crippled by muscle cramps and other ailments, the men developed a system for stealing and processing salt.†
p. 284.6ailments = illnesses
- Tuberculosis, malaria, dysentery, malnutrition, anemia, eye ailments, and festering wounds were widespread.†
p. 346.4 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(ailment) an illness
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)