ailment

ailment
Commonly means indisposition of body or mind; a slight illness. Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York v. Burton, 167 Tenn. 606, 72 S.W. 778, 781.
In life insurance application, term does not include mere temporary indisposition, which though requiring medical treatment is readily remediable, Zogg v. Bankers' Life Co. of Des Moines, Iowa, C.C.A.W.Va., 62 F.2d 575, 578; nor passing disorders which could not properly be called diseases

Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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