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Disease Heart Dɪˈziːz Infectious Prevent Spread Coronary Noun

Word3 disease
WordType (noun)
Phonetic /dɪˈziːz/ /dɪˈziːz/
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  • heart/lung/liver disease
  • in 19th century england, infectious diseases were the principal cause of death.
  • chronic diseases such as obesity and diabetes
  • health measures to prevent the spread of disease
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disease

(noun)/dɪˈziːz/ /dɪˈziːz/
  1. an illness affecting humans, animals or plants, often caused by infection
    • heart/lung/liver disease
    • In 19th century England, infectious diseases were the principal cause of death.
    • chronic diseases such as obesity and diabetes
    • health measures to prevent the spread of disease
    • Smoking increases the risk of heart disease.
    • It is not known what causes the disease.
    • He suffers from a rare blood disease.
    • Sailors who ate no fresh food contracted the disease.
    • It's better to prevent disease by ensuring a clean water supply.
    • to treat/cure a disease
    • to spread/transmit a disease
    • Cattle had to be slaughtered after an outbreak of the disease.
    • patients with coronary heart disease
    • cardiovascular/pulmonary/respiratory disease

    Extra Examples

    • Children are still dying in their millions from preventable diseases.
    • Humans can contract the disease, which is treatable with antibiotics.
    • the problem of controlling pests and disease with organic gardening methods
    • Gene therapy was first pursued in an attempt to cure genetic diseases.
    • We face the challenge of finding new ways to treat diseases.
    • Quarantine is important for animal disease prevention.
    • Drugs can slow down the progression of the disease, but not cure it altogether.
    • He has a serious lung disease.
    • He suffered from coronary heart disease
    • She got a rare liver disease when she was only twenty.
    • Lupus is an autoimmune disease.
    • Such unhygienic practices spread disease.
    • Sufferers from Alzheimer's disease may not be able to cope at home.
    • The disease has been eradicated from the world.
    • The disease has killed 500 people so far this year.
    • The disease is transmitted by mosquitoes.
    • The government must take action to fight this deadly disease.
    • the difficulty of diagnosing and treating these diseases
    • They want to stop the disease from spreading.
    • Tobacco lowers the body's resistance to disease.
    • You can't catch the disease just from physical contact.
    • a disease caused by a vitamin deficiency
    • a disease of the digestive system
    • childhood diseases such as mumps and chicken pox
    • fears of a new killer disease
    • fears of an outbreak of Legionnaire's disease
    • new drugs which help to control the disease
    • the number of people with this disease
    • the overall incidence of disease in the world
    • the risk of coronary heart disease
    • the ticks that carry the disease
    • The problem was finally diagnosed as heart disease.
    • This is an extremely infectious disease.
    • protection against sexually transmitted diseases
  2. something that is very wrong with people’s attitudes, way of life or with society
    • Greed is a disease of modern society.

    Word Origin

    • Middle English (in the sense ‘lack of ease; inconvenience’): from Old French desaise ‘lack of ease’, from des- (expressing reversal) + aise ‘ease’.
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