Caused by an accumulation of plaque blocking a coronary artery, it can be a relatively minor affliction or it can be the first step in a severe heart attack.

While Moore believed herbs and plants provided a natural way of treating many minor afflictions, he accepted that medical drugs should be used for serious illness.

Though snoring is often considered a minor affliction, snorers can sometimes suffer severe impairment of lifestyle.

He's suffering from shock and three broken ribs and more minor afflictions than I have time to list.

Your susceptibility to minor afflictions, about the same.

I eased their curiosity and explained jokingly that my better half had taken ill with a minor physical affliction and needed a day of bed rest.

Although human populations are evidently doing fine, common minor afflictions like weakened eyesight, headaches and stomach upsets could reflect this inherited baggage of adverse mutations.

Even though Otto is having minor afflictions with his hand, the surgery is a success.

Among my minor afflictions, I may mention a new and mysterious one.

Warfare becomes a minor affliction.