Disease
//dɪˈziːz//
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The word "disease" can be used as noun and verb.
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4H disease Addison's disease Aleutian disease Alpers' disease Alzheimer's disease Anaheim disease Andersen disease Appalachian Mountain disease Arctic dog disease Arkin's disease Armenian disease Armillaria root disease Aujeszky's disease Australian X disease Baló's disease Bamberger-Marie disease Bang's disease Banti's disease Barcoo disease Barlow's disease Basedow's disease Batten disease Bayoud disease Bechterew's disease Beck-Ibrahim disease Behcet's disease Behçet's disease Bekhterev's disease Benjamin Button disease Benson's disease Besnier-Boeck disease Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann disease Birdsville disease Blount's disease Borna disease Borna disease virus Bornholm disease Bourneville's disease Bowen's disease Bright's disease Brill's disease Brill-Zinsser disease British disease Buerger disease Buerger's disease Buschke disease CADASIL disease California disease Calvé's disease Camurati-Engelmann disease Canavan disease Canavan-Van Bogaert-Bertrand disease Caplan disease Caroli disease Carrion's disease Castleman disease Castleman's disease Central Mississippi River Valley disease Chagas disease Chagas' disease Charcot disease Charcot's disease Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease Charlevoix disease Cheadle's disease Christmas disease Cobb's disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Crohn's disease Cruveilhier-Baumgarten disease Cumberland disease Cupid's disease Curschmann-Steinert disease Cushing's disease Darier's disease Darier-Roussy disease Darling's disease Degos disease Dejerine-Sottas disease Dercum's disease Deutschländer's disease Dubreuilh-Hutchinson disease Duchenne-Aran disease Duhring's disease Dupuytren disease Dupuytren's disease Dutch disease Dutch elm disease Ebola virus disease Eisenmenger disease Eisenmenger's disease English disease Erdheim-Chester disease Fabry disease Fabry's disease Fahr disease Farber disease Filatov disease Filatov's disease Fong disease Fonseca's disease Forestier disease Forestier's disease Fox-Fordyce disease French disease Gaucher disease Gaucher's disease Georgina River disease Gerstmann-Sträussler disease Gilchrist's disease Glässer's disease Glénard's disease Gorham's disease Grand Rapids disease Grand Traverse disease Graves disease Graves' disease Gruby-Sabouraud disease Guinea worm disease HIV disease Haglund's disease Hailey-Hailey disease Hallervorden-Spatz disease Hand-Schüller-Christian disease Hansen disease Hansen's disease Hartnup disease Hashimoto's disease Hashimoto-Pritzker disease Hereford disease Hirschsprung disease Hirschsprung's disease Hodgkin's disease Hoffa's disease Hunt's disease Huntington's disease Hurler's disease Isle of Wight disease Jansen disease January disease Johne's disease Kahler's disease Kashin-Beck disease Kashin-Bek disease Kawasaki disease Kawasaki's disease Kennedy disease Kennedy's disease Keshan disease Kienbock's disease Kienböck's disease Kienböck’s disease Kimberley horse disease Kimura disease Kostmann disease Krabbe disease Krishaber's disease Kufor-Rakeb disease Kussmaul-Maier disease Kyasanur Forest disease Köhler-Pellegrini-Stieda disease Köhlmeier-Degos disease König's disease Lahaina disease Lanarkshire disease Larsen-Johansson disease Ledderhose disease Ledderhose's disease Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease Leigh disease Leiner's disease Letterer-Siwe disease Lhermitte-Duclos disease Little's disease Lou Gehrig's disease Lyme disease Lytico-Bodig disease MEB disease Marburg disease Marburg virus disease Marburger virus disease Marchiafava-Bignami disease Marek's disease Marie's disease Marion disease Marion's disease Martin's disease McArdle's disease Mediterranean disease Mediterranean-hemoglobin E disease Menkes disease Miana disease Mikulicz disease Milroy disease Milroy's disease Minamata disease Mitchell's disease Miyasato's disease Moeller's disease Molteno disease Monday morning disease Mondor's disease Monge's disease Moyamoya disease Mucha's disease Ménière's disease Möller-Barlow disease Nairobi disease Nairobi sheep disease Naito-Oyanagi disease Nasu-Hakola disease National Communicable Disease Center National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit Navajo disease Naxos disease Neapolitan disease Newcastle Disease Virus Newcastle disease Niemann-Pick disease Nightcliff gardener's disease Nobel disease Norrie disease Nosema-disease Ockelbo disease Ohio Valley disease Ollier disease Ollier's disease Osgood-Schlatter disease Osgood-Schlatter's disease Osler-Rendu-Weber disease Osler-Weber-Rendu disease Owren's disease PASLI disease Paget disease Paget disease of bone Paget disease of the breast Paget disease of the nipple Paget's disease Paget's disease of bone Paget's disease of the breast Paget's disease of the nipple Paget-Schroetter disease Paget-von Schrötter disease Panama disease Panner disease Panner's disease Parkinson's disease Pedroso's disease Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease Pelizaeus-Merzbacher's disease Pendred disease Perthes disease Perthes' disease Peyronie's disease Pfeiffer's disease Philippine fowl disease Pick's disease Pictou disease Pierce's disease Pogosta disease Pompe disease Posadas-Wernicke disease Pott's disease Purtscher's disease Pégot-Cruveilhier-Baumgarten disease Ranikhet disease Raynaud's disease Recklinghausen disease Refsum disease Refsum's disease Reiter's disease Rendu-Osler-Weber disease Riggs' disease Rio Grande disease Ritter's disease Robles' disease Rosai-Dorfman disease Roth-Bernhardt disease Royal Free disease Rubarth's disease Salla disease Sandhoff disease Savoy disease Schamberg disease Scheuermann's disease Schimmelbusch's disease Schneeberg disease Schneeberg lung disease Seitelberger disease Seitelberger's disease Silk Road disease Spielmeyer-Vogt-Sjögren-Batten disease Spike's disease St. Hubert's disease Stargardt disease Steinert disease Stewart's disease Stieda disease Still's disease Sézary disease Sézary's disease Takahara's disease Takatsuki disease Tay-Sachs disease Teeny's disease Teschen disease Thiemann's disease Thomsen disease Thomsen's disease Trevor disease Unverricht-Lundborg disease Urbach-Wiethe disease Verneuil's disease Viking disease Virchow's disease Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease Von Hippel-Lindau disease Weil's disease Werdnig-Hoffmann disease Wernicke's disease Whipple's disease Whitmore disease Whitmore's disease Willis-Ekbom disease Wilson's disease Winton's disease Wolman disease Worth disease X-disease Yusho disease Zika disease Zuska's disease Zuska-Atkins disease acorn disease akamushi disease alcoholic liver disease alpha chain disease anatipestifer disease anterior horn cell disease antidisease aortoiliac occlusive disease apple summer disease arc welder's disease area under disease progress curve argyrophilic grain disease arteriosclerotic heart disease artery disease artery occlusive disease artificial disease autoimmune disease autoimmune inner ear disease baby pig disease beak and feather disease beech bark disease black band disease black urine disease blackhead disease blood disease blue disease blue ear disease blue tongue disease blue waffle disease blue-ear disease blue-ear pig disease bluetongue disease bomb-shell disease bone disease bone-thinning disease brain disease brick venereal disease brisket disease brittle bone disease brittle-bone disease bronze disease bronzed skin disease brown lung disease bubble baby disease bubble boy disease caisson disease calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate deposition disease calculous biliary disease cardiac disease cardiovascular disease cat scratch disease cat-scratch disease cave disease celiac disease central core disease cerebrovascular disease chronic Lyme disease chronic beryllium disease chronic disease chronic granulomatous disease chronic inflammatory bowel disease chronic kidney disease chronic obstructive airway disease chronic obstructive lung disease chronic obstructive pulmonary disease chronic renal disease chronic respiratory disease chronic wasting disease clinical disease clown fish disease coeliac disease cold agglutinin disease collagen disease conformational disease congenital heart disease congenital metabolic disease connective tissue disease copper transport disease coronary artery disease coronary disease coronary heart disease coronavirus disease 2019 corridor disease creeping disease crowd disease cytomegalic inclusion disease deficiency disease degenerative disc disease degenerative joint disease demyelinating disease devil facial tumor disease diffuse parenchymal lung disease diploma disease disappearing disease disease boat disease enhancement disease management disease management program disease mongering disease of affluence disease of civilisation disease of civilization disease of despair disease pattern disease-free disease-modifying disease-ridden diseaseful diseaseless diseaselike diseasement diseasome diverticular disease engineer's disease epizootic hemorrhagic disease extramammary Paget disease extramammary Paget's disease fall dwindle disease farmer's disease fatty liver disease fifth disease fish-handler's disease fish-skin disease fishskin disease flesh-eating disease flint disease food-borne disease foot-and-mouth disease foot-and-mouth disease virus foot-in-mouth disease fright disease gasping disease gastric reflux disease gastro-intestinal disease gastro-oesophageal reflux disease gastroesophageal reflux disease gay disease general disease generalized disease genetic disease genetic prion disease genital tract disease geriatric disease germ theory of disease gingival disease glass bone disease glass disease glycogen storage disease graft-versus-host disease grapevine disease green ear disease green monkey disease gross structural heart disease haemolytic disease of the newborn haemorrhoidal disease hand, foot and mouth disease hand-foot-mouth disease hanging disease hardware disease heart disease heart-hand disease heartworm disease hemolytic disease hemolytic disease of the newborn hip joint disease hoof-and-mouth disease hookworm disease hyaline membrane disease hypokinetic disease immune-mediated disease immunocomplex disease immunoproliferative disease immunoproliferative small intestinal disease imperial disease industrial disease infectious disease infectious disease specialist inflammatory airway disease inflammatory bowel disease ink disease interstitial lung disease intervertebral disk disease ischaemic heart disease ischemic heart disease itai-itai disease jumping disease kala-azar disease kidney disease kinky hair disease kissing disease kromnek disease lake shore disease leaf curl disease leaf spot disease legionnaires' disease lifestyle disease lime disease littleleaf disease loco disease locoweed disease lumpy skin disease lymphoproliferative disease mad cow disease mad hatter disease mammary Paget disease mammary Paget's disease managerial disease maple bark disease maple bark stripper's disease maple syrup urine disease maple-syrup urine disease maple-syrup-urine disease medical students' disease medullary cystic kidney disease mental disease metabolic bone disease metabolic disease microvillus inclusion disease milky disease milo disease miner's disease minimal change disease mixed connective tissue disease motor neuron disease motor neurone disease multidisease muscle-eye-brain disease myeloproliferative disease nameless bee disease navicular disease neurocutaneous disease neurodegenerative disease neurodisease neuroimmunological disease neuromuscular disease neuronal intermediate filament inclusion disease new duck disease nil disease no appreciable disease no evidence of disease nodding disease non-alcoholic fatty liver disease nonalcoholic fatty liver disease nondisease nosema disease notifiable disease nubbin disease obstructive airway disease obstructive airways disease obstructive disease occlusive disease occupational disease oculocraniosomatic disease old timer's disease old timers' disease old-timer's disease old-timers' disease organic disease orphan disease overstraining disease paediatric disease parrot disease peach phony disease pearl disease pearly disease pediatric disease pelvic inflammatory disease pepper disease peptic ulcer disease peripheral artery disease peripheral artery occlusive disease peripheral occlusive disease peripheral vascular disease phantom bone disease phony disease phony peach disease pigeon breeder's disease pink disease plant virus disease pneumatic hammer disease polycystic kidney disease polycystic liver disease polyhedral disease pre-disease predisease prion disease protein misfolding disease protein-folding disease pullorum disease pulseless disease pyrosomal disease radiation-induced liver disease ragsorter's disease railroad disease reactive airway disease rebellious disease red ring disease red spot disease red tail disease renal disease rich man's disease rickettsial disease rolling skin disease root disease round heart disease royal disease runt disease sea star wasting disease sea-star wasting disease seastar wasting disease serum disease sexually transmitted disease shothole disease sickle cell disease sickle-cell disease silver leaf disease sixth disease skin disease skinbound disease skull base disease social disease sooty bark disease starfish wasting disease steely hair disease stone disease stress disease structural heart disease stubborn disease subclinical disease sugarcane grassy shoot disease suicide disease summit disease swainsonine disease swine vesicular disease swineherd's disease swineherder's disease systemic exertion intolerance disease the cure is worse than the disease thyroid eye disease time-zone disease toadstool disease tomato disease tree man disease treetop disease tropical disease tunnel disease turkey X disease urinary bladder disease valvular heart disease variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease venereal disease venous disease vine disease viral viral haemorrhagic disease viral hemorrhagic disease vocational disease von Economo disease von Hippel–Lindau disease von Recklinghausen disease von Willebrand disease von Willebrand's disease walkabout disease walking disease wasting disease watermark disease whiptail disease whirling disease white line disease white muscle disease white spot disease white-spot disease widespread disease wilt disease wind disease winter vomiting disease wobbler disease woolsorter's disease yellow fat disease yuppie disease zombie deer disease zoonotic disease zymotic disease
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abnormal affliction aids ailment annoy antibiotics bacteria bacteria caused bacteria viruses bad bad health bad illness bad thing being being ill being sick black black plague body body malfunction body pathology cancer cancer flu cause caused causes causes sickness chicken chicken pox communicable communicable condition condition condition bad contagious costs creases crones cure deadly deadly sometimes death discomfort disorder disquiet dreadful dutch dutch elm dysfunction ease effect elm epidemic example example leprosy fatal fatal illness flu general general term generic generic sickness generic term germ germ effect germ infestation germ reaction germ result germs germs virus germs viruses getting getting sick harmful health health costs health problem hospitals ill ill health illness illness cause illness sickness infect infection infectious infectious illness infestation injury instantaneous irritate leprosy like like cancer like virus malady malaria malfunction many names measles measles mumps medical medical condition medical problem medicine mumps names nonspecific nonspecific illness particles pathology people pestilence physical physical disorder plague polio pox problem reaction result rickets rickets leprosy serious serious sickness severe severity sick sick people sickly sickness sickness illness smallpox sometimes std symptoms systemic systemic illness term transmission treatable trouble unease uneasiness unhealthy usually usually contagious venereal vexation virus viruses
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