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单词 disease
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disease
(dɪziːz )
Word forms: diseases
1. variable noun B1+
A disease is an illness which affects people, animals, or plants, for example one which is caused by bacteria or infection.
...the rapid spread of disease in the area.
...illnesses such as heart disease.
Doctors believe they have cured him of the disease.
Synonyms: illness, condition, complaint, upset  
2. countable noun [with supplement]
You can refer to a bad attitude or habit, usually one that a group of people have, as a disease. [literary]
Synonyms: evil, disorder, plague [informal], curse  
Collocations:
battle the disease
As they battle the disease, the pair draw closer, gaining strength from each other.
The Sun (2009)
We can be proud that our Government has been at the forefront of battling the disease.
The Sun (2016)
He battled the disease for two years.
The Sun (2016)
beat the disease
Keep fighting - you can beat this dreadful disease.
The Sun (2009)
Surgery gives the best chance of beating the disease.
The Sun (2009)
Early detection is the key to successfully beating this disease.
The Sun (2010)
brain disease
The British researcher is known for his work in furthering the understanding of Alzheimer's and other brain diseases.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The discovery offers hope for a blood test to detect heart and brain diseases before symptoms appear.
The Sun (2016)
Artificial intelligence is already helping research into cancer and brain diseases.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
carry disease
They compete for food and can sometimes carry diseases that native wildlife cannot fight off.
The Sun (2009)
These birds are pests and can carry some really nasty diseases.
The Sun (2015)
The disease is carried by fruit bats.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
catch the disease
She caught the disease during a holiday to Tanzania.
The Sun (2014)
If you come into contact with the patients you risk catching the disease.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
How do we work in the epidemic and not catch the disease?
Christianity Today (2000)
cause disease
A string of studies have shown that obesity causes heart disease, cancer and diabetes.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Half of all smokers will die from a disease caused by their addiction.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The team emphasised that their study could not prove that anxiety caused heart disease.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
combat disease
If we are going to combat this disease, we need to understand its medical basis.
The Sun (2013)
There are now 27 vaccines available to combat different diseases.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
This represents fantastic progress in combating the disease which destroys so many lives.
The Sun (2014)
contagious disease
It's hoped that the research will shed light on the spread of contagious diseases.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Many died from contagious diseases.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
They will also be tested for contagious diseases.
The Sun (2015)
cure diseases
We have to find better ways to cure diseases.
The Sun (2010)
It has already been used to cure diseases in mice.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
But the treatments did not cure the disease.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
deadly disease
It is one of the deadliest diseases on the planet.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
A great lifestyle shouldn't be all about avoiding deadly diseases.
The Sun (2015)
There have been concerns about protecting all those trees from those deadly diseases that have begun to stalk British woodlands.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
detect disease
A transplant is an option if the disease is detected early enough.
The Sun (2008)
Her tragic story has raised awareness of the need for check-ups to detect the disease early.
The Sun (2009)
It's hoped that the test could help medics detect the disease earlier.
The Sun (2015)
diagnose disease
We need a way of diagnosing the disease earlier to allow more people to have surgery.
The Sun (2016)
When we came back the disease was diagnosed and he was given three weeks to live.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The doctors who diagnosed the disease said that the cancer was in its earliest stages.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
disease incidence
Dry soils increase disease incidence and severity, therefore proper irrigation can aid in control of this disease.
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Agronomic practices often influence disease incidence for better or for worse.
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The overall rate of water-borne/enteric disease incidence, including acute gastrointestinal disease, etc and was estimated to be about 66%.
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This reduces percentage of disease incidence, but causes a reduction in the percentage of bud sprouting.
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Crop rotation with cereals in fields with high levels of disease incidence can help in reduction of inoculums.
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disease linked to
Its report suggests 7.6million new cases of disease linked to being overweight or obese will be diagnosed.
The Sun
The first case of the incurable disease linked to a transfusion was reported in 2003.
Times, Sunday Times
The use of raw milk has led to a number of instances of food-borne disease linked to cheese, especially unaged, fresh cheeses.
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This in turn causes beriberi, a disease linked to nutritional deficiency.
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disease management
He said that while identifying a predisposition to a condition did not mean that they would develop it, the alert offered the chance for more effective disease management.
Times, Sunday Times
They must carry out 'at least weekly inspections of four bee colonies, health inspections, pest and disease management and honey extraction'.
The Sun
Convinced that such traditional wellness practices could be more successful in disease management than western medicines, she set about creating a boutique retreat.
Times, Sunday Times
Topics for the 2010-11 lecture programme include surgical disease management, diagnosis and contemporary research on various conditions, therapeutics, laser treatment and dispensing.
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The company designs clinical interfaces, health information systems, and mobile technologies to perform patient-level disease management, clinical decision support, and health system monitoring.
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disease of poverty
Dental caries have been linked with lower socio-economic status and can be considered a disease of poverty.
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Other barriers to care are present in the lack of treatments developed to target diseases of poverty.
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His post gave him the opportunity to study diseases of poverty.
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Diseases of affluence are predicted to become more prevalent in developing countries as diseases of poverty decline, longevity increases, and lifestyles change.
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disease progresses
The tangles first destroy the nerve cells linked to memory and then destroy neurons in other parts of the brain as the disease progresses.
Times, Sunday Times
The rate at which the disease progresses varies greatly.
The Sun
Later, as the disease progresses, the ability to make dopamine and neurological receptors for the chemical declines, and symptoms often worsen.
Times, Sunday Times
But often, as the disease progresses, a blockage will occur again elsewhere.
Times, Sunday Times
As the disease progresses, different proteins form tangles inside the cells, causing much of the damage.
Times, Sunday Times
disease risk
Researchers also found the drug seemed to reduce kidney and heart disease risk.
The Sun (2015)
Importantly, species diversity of the habitat was the primary predictor of disease risk for wild chiltepin populations.
Israel Pagán, Pablo González-Jara, Alejandra Moreno-Letelier, Manuel Rodelo-Urrego, Aurora Fraile, Daniel Piñero, Fernando García-Arenal 2012, 'Effect of biodiversity changes in disease risk: exploring disease emergence in a plant-virus system.', PLoS Pathogens
Fasting blood for estrone and heart disease risk factors were collected at baseline.
Antonio de Padua Mansur, Tereza Cristina B. F. Silva, Julio Yoshio Takada, Solange Desirée Avakian, Célia Maria C. Strunz, Luiz Antonio Machado César, José Mendes Aldrighi, José Antonio F. Ramires 2012, 'Long-Term Prospective Study of the Influence of Estrone Levels on Events in Postmenopausal Women with or at High Risk for Coronary Artery Disease', The Scientific World Journal
Genetics, proviral load and infection route are related to disease risk along life.
Marcelo Grossi Araújo, Denise Utsch Gonçalves, Anna Bárbara F. Carneiro-Proietti, Fernando Augusto Proietti, Antonio Carlos M. Guedes 2008, 'Manifestações cutâneas da infecção e das doenças relacionadas ao vírus linfotrópico de células T humanas do tipo 1 Cutaneous manifestations in human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 infection', Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia
disease severity
Inapparent infections need to be considered for their impact on disease severity, transmission dynamics, and vaccine efficacy and uptake.
Laura eGrange, Etienne eSimon-Loriere, Anavaj eSakuntabhai, Lionel eGresh, Richard ePaul, Eva eHarris 2014, 'Epidemiological factors associated with high global frequency of inapparent dengue virus infections', Frontiers in Immunology
There was no relationship between antinuclear antibody or rheumatoid factor and disease severity.
Koji Tamai, Harukazu Yoshimatsu, Toshiharu Saito, Hirofumi Matsuoka, Nobuhiko Okada, Yasuko Koma, Akiko Otsuka, Nao Oda, Sayaka Inoue, Sachie Kume, Yujiro Suzuki 2017, 'Autoantibody profiles and their association with blood eosinophils in asthma and COPD', Allergology International
We outline an automated computational and machine learning framework that predicts disease severity and stratifies patients.
Soumya Banerjee 2017, 'Automated interpretable computational biology in the clinic: a framework to predict disease severity and stratify patients from clinical data', Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems
There was an association of mortality with disease severity but not with transfusional characteristics.
Ilusca Cardoso de Paula, Luciano Cesar Pontes Azevedo, Luiz Fernando dos Reis Falcão, Bruno Franco Mazza, Melca Maria Oliveira Barros, Flavio Geraldo Rezende Freitas, Flávia Ribeiro Machado 2014, 'Transfusional profile in different types of intensive care units', Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology
disease spreads
They eventually succumbed to hunting and disease spread by domestic cattle.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It's an airborne disease spread by coughing, sneezing and spitting.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The elm is to return to the English landscape three decades after millions of trees were killed by a fungal disease spread by beetles.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The disease spread from rats to humans by flea bites.
The Sun (2014)
disease surveillance
The directive will also prohibit bird markets and shows in the area, and provides for enhanced disease surveillance of wild birds.
Times, Sunday Times
And developed countries—with well-trained health workforces, efficient disease surveillance systems, and advanced health facilities—could be pushed to their limits.
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This highlighted the need for local and regional disease surveillance systems and for investment in the capacity of health systems in low and middle income countries.
Times, Sunday Times
Major areas of epidemiological study include disease etiology, outbreak investigation, disease surveillance and screening, biomonitoring, and comparisons of treatment effects such as in clinical trials.
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These first steps focus on improving the quality of laboratory services for disease surveillance and outbreak response and integrating laboratory and epidemiologic efforts.
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disease vector
Or by a reduction in prevalence of some other disease vector?
Times, Sunday Times
This was the first demonstration that an arthropod could act as a disease vector to transmit an infectious agent to a vertebrate host.
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Public health measures were ineffective because the role of the mosquito as a disease vector was then unknown.
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And the spirit of solidarity can easily curdle into one where we continue to spy on our neighbours and see others primarily as disease vectors.
Times,Sunday Times
Very often the disease vectors were local, usually insects.
Times, Sunday Times
eliminate a disease
Experts predicted it could take decades to eliminate the disease.
Times,Sunday Times
This proved an effective treatment because of mercury's poisonous nature and ability to penetrate the skin, allowing it to eliminate the disease and the itch.
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The drains still did not eliminate the disease.
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The last eight will be to completely eliminate the disease.
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Treatment may take up to one year to completely eliminate the disease.
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eradicate a disease
Nevertheless, he has said that only strict movement controls will eradicate the disease.
Times, Sunday Times
The strategy to eradicate the disease also includes extra testing of cattle and strict biosecurity rules on farms.
Times, Sunday Times
However, we never try to eradicate the disease by way of dismantling society through lockdowns, which cause far more harm than the disease.
Times,Sunday Times
Several applications may be needed to eradicate the disease completely.
The Sun
For only the second time in history, we are set to eradicate a disease in humans.
Times, Sunday Times
fatal disease
They're all carrying highly contagious, potentially fatal diseases.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
They called for an investigation into the link between traffic pollution and fatal lung diseases.
The Sun (2010)
The vaccine is safe, effective and the only protection against a potentially fatal disease.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
fight disease
Eat fatty fish: Omega 3 oils appear to fight heart disease.
The Sun (2008)
It's the only way we can fight this disease.
The Sun (2015)
The treatment works by persuading immune cells to fight the disease.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
fungal disease
Most trees in this family are susceptible to fungal diseases such as silver leaf, which can enter the tree via pruning cuts.
The Sun (2008)
Box hedges are under threat from a fungal disease that has flourished during the wettest winter on record.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
This problem has been caused by a fungal disease.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
genetic disease
At six months old, she was diagnosed with a rare genetic disease.
The Sun (2010)
Until relatively recently there was very little treatment for most genetic diseases.
The Sun (2013)
It had been reported that he was suffering from a rare genetic disease.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
health and disease
The research points to the country's damp, cloudy climate as a significant contributor to its bleak record of ill health and disease.
Times, Sunday Times
Trials are not just about new medicines - they cover new ways of giving medicines and smarter ways of monitoring health and disease.
Times, Sunday Times
But fashions, even in health and disease, come and go.
The Times Literary Supplement
His fundamental training was in medicine, which led to his lifelong interest in endocrinology and later into the control mechanisms for utilising body fuels in health and disease.
Times, Sunday Times
His main subjects in the philosophy of medicine have been the concepts of health and disease.
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human disease
Now scientists think we may be able to appropriate some of that ruthlessness to defeat human disease.
Times,Sunday Times
This has clear implications for studying human disease.
Times,Sunday Times
The pooches are trained to respond to the odour of human disease.
The Sun
The paper stimulated much research into stem cells, and stem-cell therapy, many believe, will dramatically change the treatment of human disease.
Times, Sunday Times
She was struck by the fact that, unlike in human disease research, there were far fewer researchers fighting to restore ocean health.
Smithsonian Mag
incurable disease
Around 400,000 Britons suffer from the incurable disease.
The Sun (2008)
According to one theory, the incurable disease might be linked to pesticides used on football pitches.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Terminal illness is defined as an incurable disease that will cause death within a relatively short time.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
infected by a disease
She added bison only became infected by the disease because they caught it off cattle.
Times, Sunday Times
For the sugarcane crop to be infected by the disease, large spore concentrations are needed.
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However, the cells they had extracted the protein from were definitely not infected by any disease causing viruses.
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Leaves severely infected by the disease turn very yellow before falling off.
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inherited disease
Through IVF parents can already screen for inherited diseases such as cystic fibrosis.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
She has inherited a rare skin disease from her mother.
The Sun (2013)
The disease is inherited and weakens the muscle cells, leading to heart palpitations.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
killer disease
The incident has raised fears the killer disease could spread rapidly.
The Sun (2014)
But within 48 hours she was dead from the killer brain disease.
The Sun (2013)
The killer disease affects the brain and spinal cord.
The Sun (2015)
life-threatening disease
The life-threatening disease affects half the koala population.
The Sun
If a person falls ill with a life-threatening disease, more frequent sessions would be allowed.
Christianity Today
How many times have we heard those who have survived a life-threatening disease talk about how the experience has transformed their perspective?
Times, Sunday Times
It's the most common life-threatening disease in this country.
Times, Sunday Times
Thought must also be given to the position of couples who reject genetic screening, or who know that they risk passing on a life-threatening disease, yet conceive naturally regardless.
Times, Sunday Times
liver disease
The British Liver Trust has urged the Government to pump more resources into helping detect liver disease early.
The Sun (2014)
People drinking just two glasses of wine a day should be tested for liver disease, a health watchdog says.
The Sun (2016)
He had been told he had advanced liver disease but continued to drink.
The Sun (2014)
neurological disease
He is afflicted with a degenerative neurological disease that has progressively lost him the use of his body.
Sociology (1995)
Around 100,000 Brits have the incurable neurological disease, which affects three times as many women as men.
The Sun (2016)
MS is a neurological disease affecting more than 85,000 people in the UK.
The Sun (2009)
outbreak of disease
An outbreak of disease would also threaten wildlife.
Times, Sunday Times
A single fire, a single outbreak of disease could wipe out the lot.
Times, Sunday Times
One infectious mosquito was enough to trigger an outbreak of disease, he added.
Times, Sunday Times
Approximately 1.2 million people are homeless and it has been reported that the lack of temporary shelter may lead to the outbreak of disease.
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In particular, things that causes stress, such as natural droughts or pollution or predators, can precipitate outbreak of disease.
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prevent a disease
That probably won't prevent this disease having a major impact on our lives.
The Sun
It seems unlikely, though, that doing so would prevent the disease progressing longer-term.
Times, Sunday Times
With almost no treatments available, efforts have increasingly focused on how to prevent the disease with family doctors told to seek out patients at risk.
Times, Sunday Times
A real breakthrough, though, would be to prevent the disease itself.
Times, Sunday Times
Early detection and treatment can prevent the disease from developing in about three-quarters of cases.
The Sun
preventable disease
But a vaccine changed the course of medical history and made polio a preventable disease.
The Scientist
Scientists said last week that osteoarthritis was a preventable disease, rather than an inevitable consequence of wear and ageing.
Times, Sunday Times
All that can be done, should be done to protect troops against preventable disease.
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And preventable diseases including malaria account for at least 60 per cent of its health problems.
The Sun
While hatters seemed to regard the shakes as an inevitable price to pay for their work rather than a readily preventable disease, their employers professed ignorance of the problem.
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progression of disease
Using this evidence the researchers now hope to develop medicines based on antibodies that will target the gene's activity and potentially slow or stop the progression of disease.
Times, Sunday Times
In order to mitigate these risks, corticosteroid doses are decreased biweekly assuming no further progression of disease after each reduction.
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However, research into understanding and characterizing heterogeneity can allow for a better understanding of the causes and progression of disease.
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Progression of disease in the spine may lead to paralysis.
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Predictive biomarkers help to assess the most likely response to a particular treatment type, while prognostic markers shows the progression of disease with or without treatment.
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progressive disease
It's a progressive disease so his condition worsens over time.
Times,Sunday Times
It's a progressive disease, which means that gradually over time, more parts of the brain are damaged.
The Sun
It's a relentless progressive disease.
The Sun
He has muscular dystrophy, a progressive disease.
Houston Chronicle
But as the disease progresses so the repair in most patients will fail and that causes progressive disease.
Times, Sunday Times
rare disease
I'd been diagnosed with a rare lung disease and given two years to live.
The Sun (2012)
With a rare disease, you may well end up more expert than your doctor.
The Sun (2016)
It had been reported that he was suffering from a rare genetic disease.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
resist a disease
It will also step up the search for trees that can resist the disease.
Times, Sunday Times
Now, 173 years later, potato blight continues to plague crops as strains of the disease organism have evolved resistance to fungicides and potato varieties bred to resist the disease.
Times, Sunday Times
Soon, his legs became so swollen that he had to lie on his back, and he lost the strength to resist the disease.
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respiratory disease
He died of a respiratory disease.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Diesel vehicles produce nitrogen dioxide, which can inflame the lung lining and lead to respiratory disease.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Acute obstructive respiratory disease, hypercarbia or hypoxemia were not associated with headache.
Tomer Tzadok, Ronen Toledano, Lior Fuchs, Carmi Bartal, Victor Novack, Gal Ifergane 2015, 'Headache in the presentation of noncephalic acute illness', Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice
reverse a disease
Yet the latest study encouragingly shows that weight can be lost at a much more manageable rate and still reverse the disease.
Times,Sunday Times
Researchers found a maximum of 600 calories a day could reverse the disease and kept it at bay even when the diet stopped.
The Sun
If the new cells can be transplanted into the brain, they may halt or reverse the disease and overcome the symptoms by replacing the cells that have died.
Times, Sunday Times
Although they featured testimonials from those who claimed that her counselling had helped them to reverse the disease, she was careful not to promise a cure.
Times, Sunday Times
They believe that it will soon be possible to correct the broken gene in a patient's stem cells and then use these to restore the retina, effectively reversing the disease.
Times, Sunday Times
serious disease
When farms are in the grip of a more serious disease outbreak, that number can rise to 500,000 per day.
Times, Sunday Times
If you're otherwise feeling well, the chances are your tiredness isn't caused by any serious disease - especially if it has gone on for ages.
The Sun
Take that fear of serious disease: those who did attend turned up, on average, after two days of symptoms.
Times, Sunday Times
Occasionally, though, ankle swelling can be the result of serious disease.
Times, Sunday Times
But it's not usually a sign of serious disease and only needs an appointment if it's really bothering you.
The Sun
severe disease
The general lack of antibiotics to deal with secondary bacterial infections, which are a common cause of very severe disease.
Smithsonian Mag
My career showed me this: patients with a severe disease as a result of cigarette smoking were often unable to quit the habit.
Times, Sunday Times
Among 15,000 trial participants who received the vaccine, rather than a placebo, it was 100 per cent effective in preventing severe disease.
Times,Sunday Times
Those with severe disease may be offered monoclonal antibody-based treatments.
Times, Sunday Times
It prevented severe disease and there are promising early signs that it might also block transmission of the virus.
Times,Sunday Times
symptoms of disease
Researchers have found the metal causes proteins in the brain to fold abnormally, leading to damage and symptoms of disease.
The Sun
The primary symptoms of disease are chlorotic streaks on leaves and splitting of the pseudostem.
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This ensures that an oocyte or early-stage embryo has no symptoms of disease before implantation.
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In their use as medicine, are often inhaled for relief of angina and other heart-related symptoms of disease.
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Western herbs are used in a singular form to treat symptoms of disease without a medical diagnosis.
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tackle disease
If we want to get serious about tackling this disease we must take action now.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The hope is that new and existing treatments could be used to tackle both diseases, improving the chances of at least slowing them down.
The Sun (2016)
Health charities, including those tackling heart disease and cancer, are the most popular beneficiaries.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
terminal disease
Reports that he had cancer or another terminal disease were consistently denied by officials.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The grant will fund a weekend of workshops for parents of children with this terminal disease.
The Sun (2012)
That is the wrong message to send the millions fighting with great dignity against terminal diseases.
Christianity Today (2000)
terrible disease
Perhaps it's no coincidence that, to me, bucolic itself sounds more like a terrible disease than a lifestyle.
Times, Sunday Times
From this you can deduce the terrible disease that needs treating with such force - cellulite.
Times, Sunday Times
I don't think two people could have been happier till this terrible disease came.
Times, Sunday Times
It's known that this terrible disease can be caused by toxic chemicals, solvents, pesticides and by radiation.
The Sun
It's like being constantly told that you have a terrible disease.
Times, Sunday Times
transmission of disease
Other problems presented by the presence of bats in a place of worship include cleanliness and the danger of transmission of disease.
Times, Sunday Times
But while globalization can escalate the transmission of disease, it can also facilitate the worldwide dissemination of knowledge.
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This can lead to lower honey and pollen yields, higher transmission of disease and robbing.
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The use of penetrating captive bolts has, largely, been discontinued in commercial situations in order to minimize the risk of transmission of disease.
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Automatic faucets are common in public washrooms, particularly in airports and hotels, where they help to reduce water consumption and reduce the transmission of disease causing microbes.
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treat a disease
People of all ages benefit from ethical pharmaceutical and clinical advances used to treat disease.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Around ten per cent of its budget goes on treating the disease and complications such as blindness and heart disease.
The Sun (2008)
The first major potential advance in treating the disease was not a new drug but a better and more efficient method of screening.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
He had limited medical equipment, no blood bank, no drugs to treat the disease and no vaccine to combat its spread.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
treatment of disease
Turning points in the treatment of disease 112pp.
The Times Literary Supplement
As low gravity has odd effects on biology, they argue, studies of humans in space might shed light on the causes and treatment of disease.
Times, Sunday Times
From the 1700s it was fashionable for eminent doctors to prescribe climatotherapy - the treatment of disease by going to a beneficial climate.
Times, Sunday Times
Ecological medicine takes a similar approach to orthomolecular medicine for the prevention and treatment of disease.
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The company's physicians practice proactive, preventive, and personalized primary care medicine; not merely the detection and treatment of disease.
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tropical disease
In the future, tropical diseases will flourish in wider areas, possibly including Britain.
The Sun (2009)
This is a tropical disease which kills a million people a year.
The Sun (2010)
Hospitals are overflowing with elderly victims of the heat wave, some stricken with tropical diseases.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
vascular disease
The company develops products for the treatment of vascular disease.
Times, Sunday Times
They are three times more likely to have coronary heart disease and six times more likely to have peripheral vascular disease.
Times, Sunday Times
As a cardiologist, he was aware of the role of smoking in the inexorable rise in coronary heart disease and other vascular disease.
Times, Sunday Times
They will enter the blood and accumulate at sites of vascular disease.
Times, Sunday Times
The results from the ongoing international clinical trials may provide further evidence supporting the notion that homocysteine promotes progression of vascular disease.
The Scientist
viral disease
Dengue fever is a viral disease carried by mosquitoes and has flu-like symptoms.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Bluetongue is a particularly nasty non-contagious, insect-borne viral disease of ruminants, from sheep to dromedaries.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The worst possible explanation is that some new, previously unknown viral disease has found its way into the burrows and is now taking a grip.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
I was victim to a viral disease which caused me to stay in bed for some weeks.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
waterborne disease
This waterborne disease spreads through spores that travel from infected leaves to the ground and back up to fresh leaves.
Times, Sunday Times
No one seriously objects to chlorination and wants to go back to a time of waterborne disease, so why all this fuss about fluoride.
Times, Sunday Times
A further 2m are at risk from waterborne disease, hunger and lack of drinking water.
Times, Sunday Times
The seepage from the lake has become so acute that doctors fear an epidemic of waterborne diseases.
Times, Sunday Times
With septic tanks overflowing and waterborne diseases such as typhoid becoming a potential threat, civic leaders rallied public support for a solution.
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Chinese: 疾病
Japanese: 病気
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