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disease

[dih-zeez] / dɪˈziz /


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The therapy, which brought in $17.6 billion last year, is widely prescribed for patients with autoimmune disorders like inflammatory bowel disease and Crohn’s disease.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

These molecules interfere with normal plant functions, allowing the pathogen to establish an infection and promote disease.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

These receptors have played a central role in understanding how crops recognize and defend themselves against blast disease and other infections.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

The target of the research is Magnaporthe oryzae, the fungus responsible for blast disease.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

We’re nomads: We live where it’s best for the cattle, where there’s good grass and water, away from disease and pests.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola

AstraZeneca said the collaboration would focus on difficult-to-treat cardiometabolic diseases such as metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis, also known as fatty liver disease, and cardiomyopathies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

She had been suffering from multiple diseases, according to the department.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Droughts, intensive downpours and diseases have created challenges for tea growers across the world as they deal with the impact of a warming planet.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Stanford University researchers trained an AI model, which from a single night’s sleep, can flag a person’s risk for roughly 130 diseases, including heart attack, stroke, kidney failure and dementia, years before diagnosis.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Native people had little natural resistance, or immunity, to these new diseases.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

The first starts with terror of the unknown and unseen but culminates in sheer pathos; the latter keeps the reader guessing: Is the creature real or merely the product of a diseased imagination?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

He is also concerned about unregulated nurseries selling unidentified, or diseased plants.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, graduate student researcher Jessica Maung, Ph.D., and a broader collaborative team to investigate what happens inside diseased fat tissue.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

In particular, they’re examining how bacteria from diseased gums, and the immune response they trigger, may contribute to conditions including heart disease, diabetes, cognitive decline, arthritis, respiratory disease and chronic liver disease.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

The big house on the corner was sadder and older than I had remembered, and looked absurd, with its architectural eccentricities, its pretensions to French style, its facade covered with diseased ivy.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

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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