>>>That's not the same. Invalid is a disabled person - check in other languages. "Bolesnik" is just a person with an illness.
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>>There's always "sufferer": "... The later stages of this disease can bring great pain to the sufferer ..."
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>...which doesn't imply he's ill. He may just be gently interrogated: "... The later stages of this technique can bring great pain to the sufferer ..."
I'd've thought that the word "disease" in the sentence did!
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.