绝症

jué zhèng huàn zhě de shù liàng yǒu suǒ zēng jiā

绝症患者的数量有所增加。

The number of terminally ill patients has increased.

yī zhǒng jué zhèng

一种绝症

a fatal disease

yě xǔ shì nà zhǒng bèi zhěn duàn wéi jué zhèng de jí bìng ràng tā yǒu le shí rì wú duō zhī gǎn

也许是那种被诊断为绝症的疾病让他有了时日无多之感。

Perhaps that illness, diagnosed as fatal, gave him a sense of living on borrowed time.

tā shēn huàn jué zhèng

她身患绝症。

She developed a fatal illness.