While those might mean the same for the laymen, from a medical point of view, there is a difference between illness and sickness. Medical sociology has long made the distinction between illness and sickness. Illness is the objective diagnosis that an external impartial observer is able to make based on the constellation of symptoms which the patient presents. Sickness is the social role that ...
On Google I’ve found half a dozen instances of other students who “remember being told this in school”; it’s enshrined in a mnemonic rhyme: IF and WOULD aren't good, IF and WILL make me ill; and there’s at least one website for english learners, speakspeak, maintained by a man who “has been teaching English for 20 years”, which ...
CNET: Cancelling a Subscription? Apple Lets Devs Make You an Offer You (Maybe) Can't Refuse
Cancelling a Subscription? Apple Lets Devs Make You an Offer You (Maybe) Can't Refuse
Is it correct to think that if I say I have been ill for a week it could both mean I am still ill or I just got better? I thought that if you have recovered you should say I was ill for a week.
In this case it depends whether you mean the common cold, which is an infectious disease, or low temperature. He is suffering from a cold and He is ill with a cold are both correct, and mean "he has contracted the disease". He is suffering from cold (without the article before cold) is also correct, but this means the air temperature (or perhaps his body temperature) is dangerously low ...