catastrophic illness

1. 1.

   severe illness requiring prolonged hospitalization or recovery; usually involves high costs for hospitals and doctors and medicines

   Broaderillness

Questions about catastrophic illness

What does catastrophic illness mean?

catastrophic illness means "severe illness requiring prolonged hospitalization or recovery; usually involves high costs for hospitals and doctors and medicines".

Is catastrophic illness a common word?

catastrophic illness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.