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disease

[dih-zeez] / dɪˈziz /


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MS is an autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system and can result in progressive physical and cognitive decline.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Mowi’s salmon start their lives in land-based tanks, where they are vaccinated against various illnesses, such as pancreatic disease and winter sores.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Doctors then looked into her case further and concluded she in fact did not have the autoimmune disease, which can cause muscle stiffness and problems with walking and talking.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

"Once you separate these subtypes, you can start to match treatments to the biology that's actually driving the disease."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

Could this have something to do with his strange love disease?

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth

AstraZeneca last week said it would partner with startup Insitro to deploy artificial intelligence to explore new treatments for cardiometabolic diseases in a deal valued at up to $1.5 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Tshwane has faced numerous outbreaks from waterborne diseases in recent years.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

AstraZeneca added that the collaboration would cover multiple international projects across the U.S., the Middle East, and Europe spanning its core disease areas—cancer, cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases, respiratory and immunology, and rare diseases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Such associations do not necessarily mean that sweeteners cause these diseases, and scientists are still working to understand the biological mechanisms that might explain the findings.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

She is by far the most attractive member of the family, yet she spends most of her time and money disguising herself beneath prosthetic humps and appliquéd skin diseases.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

The first starts with terror of the unknown and unseen but culminates in sheer pathos; the latter keeps the reader guessing: Is the creature real or merely the product of a diseased imagination?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Humans usually contract it from fleas that have fed on infected wild rodents, or sometimes by handling the tissue or body fluids of a diseased animal, according to the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

He is also concerned about unregulated nurseries selling unidentified, or diseased plants.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

The diseased samples were obtained from Johns Hopkins University Hospital through an initiative supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, part of the National Institutes of Health.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

It was as if the metal itself was diseased.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

In either case we have diabetes, the sugar irritating and diseasing the kidneys as it passes.”

From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen

They provide for your wants, hearken to your complaints, nurture you in sickness, with a diseasing fondness, and so render you incapable.

From Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky by William Gilmore Simms


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