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What does sickness mean?

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Noun
  1. The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.
  2. Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
  3. (linguistics) The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.
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People very close to the blast could conceivably suffer radiation sickness and might require hospital care.
However, no individual cases of radiation sickness are discussed in any detail.
An increasing number of credible eyewitnesses testified to the unspeakable torment of radiation sickness.
Downsizing produced an increased risk of sickness absence, in line with earlier findings.
Detonated in a densely populated city, it can kill thousands from radiation sickness and leave the area uninhabitable.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been ordered to stay indoors for the day and dozens of people are suffering radiation sickness.

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