Disease

  • 11disease — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Condition of ill health Nouns 1. disease, illness, sickness, ailment, ailing; morbidity, infirmity, ailment, indisposition; complaint, disorder, malady; functional disorder. 2. condition, affliction,… …

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  • 12disease — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ common ▪ obscure, rare ▪ dangerous, serious ▪ mild ▪ acute …

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  • 13disease — dis|ease W1S3 [dıˈzi:z] n [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: desaise, from aise relaxed feeling, comfort ] 1.) [U and C] an illness which affects a person, animal, or plant ▪ She suffers from a rare disease of the brain. ▪ Heart disease runs …

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  • 14disease — n. 1) to come down with, contract a disease 2) to carry; spread (a) disease 3) to cure; prevent (a) disease 4) to eradicate, stamp out, wipe out (a) disease; to bring a disease under control 5) an acute; common; deadly; degenerative; fatal,… …

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  • 15Disease — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Disease >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 disease disease Sgm: N 1 illness illness sickness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 ailing ailing &c.??? all the ills that flesh is heir to =>(Hamlet) Sgm: N 1 morbidity morbidity …

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  • 16disease — /dI zi:z/ noun 1 (C, U) an illness or unhealthy condition in your body, especially one caused by infection: eye/liver/kidney etc disease: Heart disease runs in our family. | cause disease: filthy insanitary conditions that cause disease |… …

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  • 17disease — In a strict or literal sense, any departure from a perfect norm of health, even including some ailments which are more or less trivial. Mutual Life Ins. Co. v Simpson, 88 Tex 333. Better understood in a legal sense as an ailment or disorder of an …

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  • 18disease */*/*/ — UK [dɪˈziːz] / US [dɪˈzɪz] noun Word forms disease : singular disease plural diseases 1) a) [countable/uncountable] an illness that affects people or animals, especially one that is caused by infection disease of: a disease of the nervous system… …

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  • 19disease — 01. He got some kind of tropical [disease] while travelling in Mozambique. 02. The progress of the [disease] seems to have accelerated somewhat in the last week, and his doctor is very worried. 03. The [disease] of child abuse is a problem which… …

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  • 20disease — dis|ease [ dı ziz ] noun *** 1. ) count or uncount an illness that affects people or animals, especially one that is caused by an infection: liver/heart/lung disease: leading causes of heart disease disease of: a disease of the nervous system… …

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