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The phrase "a terminal disease" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a disease that is incurable and expected to lead to death.
Example: "The doctor informed her that she had been diagnosed with a terminal disease, and they discussed her treatment options."
Alternatives: "an incurable illness" or "a fatal condition".
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Alzheimer's is a terminal disease.
It's like a terminal disease.
Racism is "not a terminal disease.
Some of his friends joked that he was acting as if he had a terminal disease.
A Japanese-American family copes with a move and a terminal disease.
If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book?
The veteran was in a Connecticut nursing home with a terminal disease.
"There is no shame," he said, "to disclose a terminal disease from which you are suffering".
"I spoke to him and said: 'You have a terminal disease.
Phrases like "terminal illness" are vague at a time when new treatments and drugs can keep patients with a terminal disease alive for months or years.
Olivier was careful of what he said to the point of parsimony; I spent my words like an oligarch with a terminal disease.
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