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HEALTH PROBLEM

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain

Synonyms:

health problem; ill health; unhealthiness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("health problem" is a kind of...):

pathological state (a physical condition that is caused by disease)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "health problem"):

dyscrasia (an abnormal or physiologically unbalanced state of the body)

illness; malady; sickness; unwellness (impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism)

invalidism (chronic ill health)

biliousness (gastric distress caused by a disorder of the liver or gall bladder)

infection (the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms)

pathology (any deviation from a healthy or normal condition)

affliction (a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health)

harm; hurt; injury; trauma (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)

softness; unfitness (poor physical condition; being out of shape or out of condition (as from a life of ease and luxury))

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 Context examples: 

The report is important, say the researchers, because it highlights the need to tackle this environmental and public health problem, one which disproportionately affects people in low and middle income countries, though may still affect those in higher income countries.

(Experts warn of cardiovascular risk from heavy metal pollution, University of Cambridge)