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Definition of Chronic
1. Adjective. Being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering. "A chronic invalid"
2. Adjective. Of long duration. "Chronic money problems"
3. Adjective. Habitual. "A chronic smoker"
Definition of Chronic
1. a. Relating to time; according to time.
Definition of Chronic
1. Adjective. (context: of a problem or illness) That continues over an extended period of time. ¹
2. Adjective. (medicine) Prolonged or slow to heal. The opposite of acute. ¹
3. Adjective. suffering from such affliction ¹
4. Adjective. Inveterate or habitual. ¹
5. Adjective. (informal) Very bad, awful. ¹
6. Adjective. (informal) Extremely serious. ¹
7. Adjective. (informal) Good, great, as in "wicked" ¹
8. Noun. A chronic one ¹
9. Noun. (slang) Marijuana, typically of high quality. ¹
10. Noun. (medicine) A condition of extended duration, either continuous or marked by frequent recurrence. Sometimes implies a condition which worsens with each recurrence, though that is not inherent in the term. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chronic
1. one that suffers from a long-lasting disease [n -S]
Medical Definition of Chronic
1. Persisting over a long period of time. Origin: L. Chronicus, Gr. Chronos = time This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chronic
Literary usage of Chronic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"chronic inflammations of the paranasal sinuses (including the antrum of Highmore),
chronic tonsillitis, chronic otitis media, pyorrhea alveolaris, ..."
2. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1909)
"Clinically two groups are recognized— (a) the chronic parenchymatous nephritis,
which follows the acute attack or comes on insidiously, is characterized by ..."
3. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1897)
"The patients included in the investigation all had one thing in common,namely,
a chronic nasal catarrh ; none of them was subject to any acute febrile ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1903)
"In addition to Raynaud's disease, there are three main types in which asphyxia
is constant and chronic; they are acrocyanosis with sensory symptoms, ..."
5. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1914)
"Associated pathological findings: chronic interstitial nephritis with superimposed
... chronic interstitial myocarditis. Associated pathological findings: ..."
6. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1895)
"In other words, chronic urethritis is undue prolongation of the third or ...
He defines chronic urethritis as " the permanency of the mucous terminal stage ..."
7. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1922)
"I wish today to emphasize the infectious nature of chronic arthritis. For this
reason I have selected 4 cases which illustrate various types of focal ..."
8. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"IT is needless to emphasize the fact that there are occasions when it is difficult
to correctly diagnose chronic appendicitis. In some instances after the ..."
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