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disease

[dih-zeez] / dɪˈziz /


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For Bell, Ms. Fitzharris writes, “every patient was a text to be studied. Symptoms could divulge secrets, gestures could disclose clues” and minutiae help determine the prognosis of disease.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

It does not establish that exercise directly causes the disease to progress more slowly.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

With the disease still spreading five months into the epidemic, the nursery in the remote east is one of 12 receiving the children of those killed by the highly contagious haemorrhagic fever.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

The results suggest that remaining physically active over time could be especially important for people with Parkinson's disease.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

This was unprecedented at the time, since Hans didn’t have Hansen’s disease.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

The couple created the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a philanthropic organization whose efforts include curing, managing and preventing all diseases.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

In this one problem, Hassabis saw an opportunity to find solutions to a whole lot more, since predicting the shapes of proteins—“unbelievably exquisite things,” he calls them—held the promise of understanding diseases and curing them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Abnormal RNA accumulation has been observed in several conditions, including certain cancers, neurodegenerative diseases, and disorders associated with aging.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

Among these are tiny microparticles which can penetrate deep into the lungs and, in some cases, enter the bloodstream, causing inflammation, chronic lung diseases and increased risk of premature death.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

The boys and girls also had to prove that they were healthy and had no hereditary diseases.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Plants are ruthless in shedding those that are damaged or diseased or that they can no longer maintain, for instance during dry weather.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Humans usually contract it from fleas that have fed on infected wild rodents, or sometimes by handling the tissue or body fluids of a diseased animal, according to the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

"Farmers may unknowingly buy diseased plants. The trees may look healthy initially, but after five or seven years they can suddenly die, causing huge financial losses," he says.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

The researchers then examined a large database containing information about different cell types in young, old and diseased human livers.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026

The bodies of only five diseased caterpillars provide enough virus to treat an acre of alfalfa.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

They provide for your wants, hearken to your complaints, nurture you in sickness, with a diseasing fondness, and so render you incapable.

From Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky by William Gilmore Simms

In either case we have diabetes, the sugar irritating and diseasing the kidneys as it passes.”

From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen


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