present participle of ill

(uncountable, psychiatry) The property of being mentally ill; mental disorders taken as a whole. / (countable, psychiatry) A mental disorder.

plural of mental illness

(medicine, anthropology) A combination of psychiatric and somatic symptoms that are considered to be a recognizable disease only within a specific society or culture.

plural of folk illness

the period of illness of a person which culminates in his/her death

plural of terminal illness

(pathology) An illness that is normally incurable and that a terminally ill person would not be expected to recover from.

(insurance) Insurance that pays out a lump sum benefit on the diagnosis of a serious (life-threatening) illness in the life assured within the term of the policy, and nothing on death or healthy survival to the end of the term.

plural of final illness