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 word "disease" is correct and usable in written English. You can use it to refer to any illness that affects the body, mind, or behavior. For example: "Cancer is a serious disease that can have devastating effects on a person's health.".
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.
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