English-Finnish translations for illness

• sairaus
  Kyseessä on myös läheisten sairaus. The illness also involves the suffering of close relatives.
  Raskaus ei ole sairaus: lapset ovat rikkaus kehitysmaissa. Pregnancy is not an illness: children are a richness in developing countries.
  Se on kuin vakava sairaus; mitä aiemmin sitä aletaan hoitaa, sitä lievempiä hoitoja tarvitaan. It is like a serious illness, the earlier it is treated, the milder the treatment needs to be.

Definition of illness

• An instance of a disease or poor health
• A state of bad health or disease

Examples

• Her grandmother had passed away after a long illness.
• Many working days this year have been lost through illness.

Related words

• stillness
• illness behaviour
• illness {bearing
• mental illness
• glass illness
• children's illness
• fashionable illness
• succumb to illness
• cause of illness