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involving calamity; catastrophic or disastrous
Calamitous
naturally accompanying or associated
Concomitant
the meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text.
Semantics
A specialist in the anatomy, functions, and organic disorders of nerves and the nervous system.
Neurologist
A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
Euphemism
distress or embarrassment at having failed or been humiliated.
Chagrin
The state or process of being or becoming degenerate; decline or deterioration.
Degeneration
(of a person) tending to spend much time seated; somewhat inactive.
Sedentary
Spread out and apart
Splayed
[uncountable] the fact of being careless, untidy or dirty in appearance or habits.
Slovenliness
Evidence which confirms or supports a statement, theory, or finding; confirmation.
Corroboration
not perturbed or concerned.
Unperturbed
A chronic, typically progressive disease involving damage to the sheaths of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, whose symptoms may include numbness, impairment of speech and of muscular coordination, blurred vision, and severe fatigue.
Multiple Sclerosis
A preference or special liking for something; a bias in favor of something.
Predilection
What author wrote, "On Being a Cripple"?
Nancy Mairs