Sentence examples for odd disease from inspiring English sources

And while hospitals have been on the alert for odd disease patterns since Sept. 11, they are now being advised to watch for even a single case of odd symptoms, because so far, anthrax cases have not come in clusters.

If his car breaks down, if he catches an odd disease, if the subway stops in the middle of a tunnel, he knows that someone's occupation involves making sure that he comes out fine.

For the past year, I've used the BodyMedia device for various dieting experiments (I started around the time my binge eating disorder phase ended), but the current bulging, white plastic sensor leads many people to believe I have some sort of odd disease.

For Locke describes "a Man striking himself, or his Friend, by a Convulsive motion of his Arm, which it is not in his Power…to…forbear" as "acting" (E1-5 II.xxi.9: 238), andescribeses the convulsive leg motion caused by "that odd Disease called Chorea Sancti Viti [St. Vitus's Dance]" as an "Action" (E1-5 II.xxi.11: 239).

People told her that Podell was a doctor who specialized in diagnosing odd diseases, and she hoped he might finally solve the puzzle of her older sister's mysterious illness.

Some of us get really bad things – cancer and odd diseases that no early treatment or lifestyle could have prevented.

The protagonists' acquisitive desire for the latest gadgets is, it turns out, part of the novel's pungent stew of themes punning on the book's title: consumerism, in the ordinary sense of wanting to shop, but also cannibalism, and "consumption" as a very odd new disease, rather than its historical meaning of tuberculosis.

Travelers often present the most complicated cases, from odd tropical diseases to a belly full of drugs that requires an X-ray, followed by an arrest.

"I must write all this," Anne confided to her diary, "because I feel so strongly that I cannot talk about it to anyone … the world would think we were suffering from odd Freudian diseases and perhaps we are". Reading this years later, Segrave wonders about her mother's sexuality and the surprising passions that predated life as a highly conventional wife and mother.

Odds of disease were associated with age: elderly people are at slightly greater risk of having active lesions; and elderly persons are less likely to have leishmaniasis scars (the drop in scar prevalence in persons >12 years was significant, odds ratio: 0.994 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.991 to 0.997), p<0.001).

After correcting for potential confounders, ACE inhibitors remained significantly inversely associated with a personal history of cancer (odds ratio = 0.59, [0.39, 0.89]; P = 0.01) and peptic ulcer disease (odd ratio = 0.68, [0.46, 1.00], P = 0.05).