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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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Hundreds of thousands of people have been ordered to stay indoors for the day and dozens of people are suffering radiation sickness.
However, no individual cases of radiation sickness are discussed in any detail.
Downsizing produced an increased risk of sickness absence, in line with earlier findings.
However, the civilians who were killed by the bomb and the survivors who developed radiation sickness left an unforgettable legacy of fear.
A dirty bomb would boost the radiation level above normal levels, increasing the risk of cancer and radiation sickness to some degree.
Sam performs an autopsy on a car crash victim and finds the body is wrought with radiation sickness.

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