What does the word sick mean?
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Such is its acceptation in old English, and generally in the United States. In most parts of the United States, if a patient is affected with a slight indisposition, he is said to be sick; if with one more severe, he is said to be ill; ( Prov.) bad, badly. In England, it most commonly means, -affected with disorder of the stomach, or nausea. A sick person, Aeger, Aegro'tus, ( F.) Malade, who is under the charge of a physician is said to be a patient, or the patient of the physician. At times, but rarely, patient is used for a sick person in the abstract.
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As used in England, affected with nausea( S. at the stomach). S. headache, migraine.
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1. Ill, unwell, suffering from disease. 2. Nauseated. 3. Menstruating. 4. In childbed.
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