Sentence examples for discrete diseases from inspiring English sources

Fibromyalgia and the related chronic fatigue are syndromes, not discrete diseases.

The assumption of many critics of contemporary psychiatry seems to be that if the D.S.M. "carved nature at the joints," if its diagnoses corresponded to discrete diseases, then all those categories would be acceptable.

Meanwhile, the question of whether Trump himself is suffering from a personality disorder is beside the point, Shedler argues – the consequence of trying to force our thinking about personality into a "medical model" in which narcissism or antisocial attitudes, like cancer, are discrete diseases, invading an otherwise healthy body.

The above epidemiological and genetic findings suggest that lung cancer and COPD are not discrete diseases related only through smoking exposure, but that many of the smokers who are susceptible to COPD might also be susceptible to lung cancer [8], [12], [24] [28].

The literature is replete with descriptions of the same degree of physical and psychological intricacy within discrete diseases [ 46- 52].

Asthma, AR and AD are clinically diagnosed as discrete diseases; however, the interrelationship between these diseases has long been recognised.

"These are pathologies that hadn't been recognized as discrete disease processes in their own right," Dr. Hadley said.

It is an awkwardly named disease -- nobody gets "precancer" or "pre-diabetes" -- and in fact pre-eclampsia is not even a discrete disease but more a constellation of bodily dysfunctions.

One way of telling the story of tuberculosis is to assume that there is a specific, discrete disease called TB, and that over time we have just 'got better' at diagnosing and understanding (if not curing) it.

The modeling framework presented here can be used to model any infectious disease of humans or wildlife with discrete disease states, irrespective of the number of disease states.

In individual forest stands, fungal infection is usually found in discrete disease patches separated by stands of healthy trees a discontinuous distribution.