Sentence examples for Disease from inspiring English sources

The word "disease" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to an illness that affects a person, animal, or plant. For example: "Cancer is a common disease that affects millions of people each year."

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Disease

noun

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.

  • The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and fruit withered.

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But he takes a slightly more pragmatic view on contraception, believing that it can be permissible to prevent the spread of disease.

She has no family history of heart disease.

Based on a true story, its stars McConaughey as an AIDS sufferer who smuggles drugs for other patients to treat the HIV virus in the early days of the disease in the 1980s.

This might not be a problem if it were a drug for TB, malaria or AIDS – but critics of the HPV donation asked why cervical cancer received such a comprehensive effort in Rwanda – reaching 95% for 11-year-old girls when disease incidence lags well behind other vaccine-preventable diseases in the developing world (read the Rwandan health minister's persuasive rebuttal).

A better understanding of the genetic and environmental mechanisms of the disease will lead to improved diagnosis and therapies.

The prison had apparently been abandoned by the French authorities to disease and death.

Her posthumous fate, suggests Reid (who has no religious faith), seemed preferable to heaven or hell: My wife is in there, somewhere, doing practical work: her organs and tissues are educating young doctors or helping researchers outwit the disease that outwitted her.

The first and as yet only British person to contract Ebola, he is back in Sierra Leone, two months after making a full recovery, to resume his role in the fight against the disease, which is now sweeping the capital.

There are only 110 beds in Freetown for Ebola patients and with the disease out of control in the capital, with almost 1,000 cases already confirmed, it is vital the unit's opening is not delayed.

But then, reluctance to learn from Europe is another symptom of the British disease.

When a child dies of neglect or abuse, the local authority is accused of incompetence and negligence; if there is an outbreak of foot and mouth disease, claims about inadequate precautions are heard; former employees of companies which have collapsed during the recession demand to know why more has not been done to save their jobs.

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