malady

Then and now, elected officials were blaming immigrants for all the supposed maladies afflicting this country.

When Colleen Henderson’s three-year-old daughter complained of pain while using the bathroom, doctors brushed it off as a urinary tract infection or constipation, common maladies in the potty-training years.

What if a drop of blood could be accurately tested to diagnose an array of maladies?

Despite his apparent malady, Kennedy stuck to his shtick of reframing health as a matter of private virtue rather than public concern.

But said rescue also referenced a clinical-sounding malady known as "single kitten syndrome," a behavioral term that did not exist two decades ago.