A chronically ill person is one who is always sick or who has a long-term illness. This means that the person is always having to go to the doctor, and they are usually unable to work.
He is chronically ill and can't work.
She has a chronically ill child, and she has to take him to the doctor all the time.
adverb
in a habitual and longstanding manner
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ADV
in a slowly developing and long lasting manner
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The disease is chronic and progressive, and resulting in paralysis.
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The cause of death was chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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The treatment of chronic liver disease depends on the cause.
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Oral Submucous Fibrosis is a chronic debilitating disease of the oral cavity.
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He continues to innovate in urgent and chronic health needs around the world.
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The opposite of chronic is acute.
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The pattern is chronic and inexcusable.
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He suffered from chronic diabetics.
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Currently the chronic use subsection is not in the article.
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The challenges are chronic, to the extreme of being pathological.