She occasionally startles with a phrase like "the rancid smell of magic in her hair" or "love: the only other ailment fatal to a courtesan."

The Mets have yet to recover from the potentially fatal ailment contracted by their hitters.

His family said he suffers from hepatitis B, a potentially fatal ailment of the liver.

The film's most touching scene involves the gentle examination of a yak that has contracted a fatal intestinal ailment after consuming dirt.

The results throw open the door to using human gene therapy to treat the deadly respiratory disorder, the most common fatal genetic ailment in the United States.

Classic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, an equally fatal ailment but separate from the variant form, is not linked to eating meat.

Pa'nar Syndrome is a fictional neurological ailment, fatal to Vulcans, and transferred between them via a mind meld.

Can mad-cow disease, the drolly named, mysterious, incurable, inevitably fatal ailment that struck England's cows in the 1980's, spread to humans?

Their mission: repair the orbiting Hubble telescope, which suffers not only blurry vision but also several potentially fatal mechanical ailments.

A white flaky substance often used for construction and insulation, asbestos has been found to cause a variety of cancers and other fatal and severe ailments.