2. Continuing for a long time; lingering; habitual.
[1913 Webster]
{Chronic disease}, one which is inveterate, of long continuance, or progresses slowly, in distinction from an acute disease, which speedly terminates. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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