Disease is an English word with synonyms like illness. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Disease in a sentence
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Disease meaning
- An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
- Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
- A lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
Synonyms of Disease
Using Disease
- The main meaning on this page is: An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired. | Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc. | A lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
- Useful related words include: illness, unwellness, malady, sickness.
- In the example corpus, disease often appears in combinations such as: the disease, disease and, heart disease.
Example sentences (20)
Because early has both adverbial and adjectival senses, its hyphenation can attract attention; some editors, due to comparison with advanced-stage disease and adult-onset disease, like the parallelism of early-stage disease and early-onset disease.
Less commonly, it has been known as Parry's disease, Begbie's disease, Flajani's disease, Flajani-Basedow syndrome, and Marsh's disease.
Attie said diabetes is a unique disease because it has various consequences including kidney disease, nerve damage and blindness and is even linked to dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
Disease of the muscles, bones or joints is also listed, alongside trauma to limbs, blindness, deafness, heart disease and chest disease.
Lyme disease-carrying ticks (I. pacificus) are more common in the coastal areas of B.C. Anyone who has the typical bull’s-eye target skin rash of Lyme disease, or other symptoms compatible with Lyme disease, should see their physician.
Chronic kidney disease, Alzheimer’s disease, colorectal cancer, mobility impairment, epilepsy, heart failure, spinal cord injury and liver disease were also associated with an increased risk of death.
Medical conditions clearly shown to increase the risk of Covid-19 include cancer, chronic kidney disease, heart disease and sickle cell disease, among others.
People at higher risk for severe disease are older adults and people of any age with serious chronic medical conditions (such as heart disease, lung disease or diabetes) and are therefore advised to avoid all cruise travel and nonessential air travel.
Dr Conroy says your GP will use a tool similar to the cardiovascular disease risk assessment, putting details such as your family history of the disease into a computer program to assess the likelihood of you developing the disease.
However, children with type-1 diabetes and celiac disease excrete lower levels of albumin than type-1 diabetic children without celiac disease, suggesting a protective role for celiac disease (Gopee ).
As a social disease, TB is largely stigmatised mainly due to limited understanding and knowledge of the disease in the communities, yet it is a disease that can be successfully treated, said Zishiri.
Celiac disease main Celiac disease (coeliac disease) is a permanent intolerance to gluten proteins that appears in genetically predisposed people.
Disorders of the heart lead to heart disease and cardiovascular disease and can lead to a significant number of deaths: cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death and caused 29.34% of all deaths in 2002.
For example, if a person dies at the age of 65 from a disease, and would probably have lived until age 80 without that disease, then that disease has caused a loss of 15 years of potential life.
It seems that any disease which produces a malfunctioning of the mind is a disease of the mind and need not be a disease of the brain itself.
It took control of disease certification; required prompt reporting of disease; and launched campaigns against tropical disease such as yellow fever.
Living Sober p 68 Wilson explained in 1960 why AA had refrained from using the term "disease": We AAs have never called alcoholism a disease because, technically speaking, it is not a disease entity.
She commented on the disease: "Like many women, I assumed heart disease was a man's disease and cancer was what we would fear the most.
The opposite of progressive disease is stable disease or static disease: a medical condition that exists, but does not get better or worse.
According to CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), heart disease is one of the leading causes of death among men and women.
Common combinations with disease
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the disease 94×
- disease and 53×
- heart disease 38×
- for disease 37×
- disease control 32×
- disease is 25×
- disease in 16×
- cardiovascular disease 14×
- of disease 13×
- lung disease 12×