The phrase "acquired disease" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in medical or health-related contexts to refer to a disease that a person has developed after birth, rather than one that is congenital or inherited.
Example: "The patient was diagnosed with an acquired disease that resulted from prolonged exposure to environmental toxins."
Alternatives: "contracted illness" or "developed condition".
Optic nerve morphology is affected by genetic and acquired disease.
"I personally believe that coronary artery disease is an acquired disease of modern development," Dr. Fuster said.
Secondary hyperparathyroidism, a type of renal osteodystrophy, may be an acquired disease found in individuals with chronic renal failure.
Mammary duct ectasia is uncommon in children, and is usually considered to be an acquired disease in adults.
To be declared a dangerous lunatic, whether through a family taint or acquired disease, meant that liberty was gone for ever.
Tropical sprue, an acquired disease characterized by the small intestine's impaired absorption of fats, vitamins, and minerals.
CONCLUSIONS: Enterococcal endocarditis can no longer be considered exclusively a unimicrobial, community-acquired disease of Caucasian men.
BACKGROUND: Based on previous studies, enterococcal infective endocarditis (IE) is considered a unimicrobial, community-acquired disease of older Caucasian men.
Since it is possible to estimate the contact structure, in terms of both time and network topology, behind the transmission of hospital-acquired disease, such diseases are well suited for studying with network theory.
This study therefore encompasses geographical differences in the carriage population at a local and global level, in addition to differences in the propensity to cause community-acquired disease.
Published studies of all-cause bacteraemia in Asia have identified S. aureus as a major cause of bacteraemia, accounting for both community-acquired and hospital-acquired disease [11] [13].
