morbid

How To Use morbid In A Sentence

• Dylan seemed exhausted, self-preoccupied, and morbidly depressed. Touched with Fire
• Eating disorders, anorexia nervosa, and bulimia nervosa, are characterised by morbid preoccupation with weight and shape and manifest through distorted or chaotic eating behaviour.
• The term morbid obesity is used to describe people whose body mass index (BMI) -- a measure of weight in relation to height -- is 40 or higher. Canada.com Top Stories
• This lapidation has sometimes been doubted, and treated as an invention of Rousseau's morbid suspicion. Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)
• Prostate cancer is a common malignant tumor in male genitourinary system, it morbidity is increasing in recent years.
• I find that the association between gestational diabetes and perinatal death or morbidity was recognized in 1983.
• In patients with superimposed bacterial infection, septicaemia develops and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality.
• I didn't see any Western country with so many elements of social morbidity: poverty, beggary and starvation.
• So great is the danger of such injurious results, few careful practitioners have cared to adopt the heroic "antipyretic" medication recommended by experimenters, preferring to allow their patients to burn with fever, mitigated only by such simple means as are commonly employed by nurses, than to require them to combat the poisonous influences of a drug in addition to the morbid element of the disease. Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884
• Sleep returned, and health, with cessation of all the morbid symptoms, the result of overwork and night work, for he used at Cheyne Walk to begin painting in the afternoon, and, lighting a huge gasalier on a standard near his easel, keep at his drawing far into the night, sleeping late the next day. The Autobiography of a Journalist