life-threatening disease
Potentially fatal condition
A life-threatening disease is an illness serious enough that it could cause death: She was diagnosed with a life-threatening disease at forty-two.
The phrase appears frequently in medical and legal contexts to distinguish conditions requiring urgent treatment from those that are merely chronic or uncomfortable.
Cancer, heart failure, and advanced infections are typical examples.
- terminalAt the endpoint
- terminal illnessIncurable, deadly medical condition
- fatalCausing death or ruin
- deadlyAble to cause expiration
- stage fourMost advanced disease level
cancer · diagnosis · prognosis · survival · chemotherapy · experimental treatment · hospital · ICU · critical · medical emergency · malignant · chronic · incurable · remission · tumor · hospice · mortality · treatment
life-threatening diseaseperfect health
Complete physical wellbeing
robust health · clean bill of health · vitality · well-being · good health
threatening, disease, living, livelihood, lifetime, lifelong, lifeless, lifelike, threaten