sufferer
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“Animate” includes a fascinating chapter on clinical lycanthropy, a psychiatric condition in which the sufferer believes that he or she is an animal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Not every back pain sufferer needs to see a spine surgeon, or even a physician, right away.
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2024
Writing in the journal Nature, the team describes how all blood cells can be removed from a leukemia sufferer in a targeted manner while a new blood system is built up at the same time.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024
"It's not going to make any difference to me because I'm already a sufferer but I don't want other people to end up like me," he says.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2023
Gradually the sufferer grows thoroughly disoriented and subject to increasingly dangerous hallucinations—including the decidedly cruel misconception that he is not freezing but burning up.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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