Disease Prevent Spread Heart Dɪˈziːz Measures Rare Noun

• heart/liver/kidney, etc. disease
• health measures to prevent the spread of disease
• an infectious/contagious disease (= one that can be passed to somebody very easily)
• it is not known what causes the disease.

disease

1. an illness affecting humans, animals or plants, often caused by infection
• heart/liver/kidney, etc. disease
• health measures to prevent the spread of disease
• an infectious/contagious disease (= one that can be passed to somebody very easily)
• It is not known what causes the disease.
• protection against sexually transmitted diseases
• He suffers from a rare blood disease.
• A fatty diet increases the risk of heart disease.
• the problem of controlling pests and disease with organic gardening methods
• He suffers from a rare blood disease.
• She died after a long illness.
• a rare disorder of the liver.
• a throat infection
• a heart condition
• childhood ailments
• a nasty flu bug
2. something that is very wrong with people’s attitudes, way of life or with society
• Greed is a disease of modern society.

Extra Examples

• Children are still dying in their millions from preventable diseases.
• 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
• It’s better to prevent disease by ensuring a clean water supply.
• She got a rare liver disease when she was only twenty.
• Such unhygienic practices spread disease.
• Sufferers from Alzheimer’s disease can’t 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.
• 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
• measures to prevent the spread of the disease
• new drugs which help to control the disease
• patients suffering from venereal 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
• He talked about controlling pests and disease with organic gardening methods.
• Measures have been taken to prevent the spread of disease.
• The problem was finally diagnosed as heart disease.
• This is an extremely infectious disease.

Word Origin

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