0 (an) illness of people, animals, plants, etc., caused by infection or a failure of health rather than by an accident:
a contagious/infectious disease
They reported a sudden outbreak of the disease in the south of the country.
The first symptom of the disease is a very high temperature.
She has caught/contracted (= begun to have) a lung disease/disease of the lungs.
1 a condition of a person, animal, or plant in which its body or structure is harmed because an organ or part is unable to work as it usually does; an illness:
Regular exercise reduces the risk of coronary heart disease.
The children were vaccinated against the major childhood diseases.
The disease is spread by the contamination of food and water by faeces.
A more rigorous analysis of the epidemiological impact of vaccination for meningococcal disease is essential for proper health economic estimates.
Thus, even if we were measuring the correct symptoms, we could expect that our purely categorical disease would be hidden within a continuous symptom distribution.
Secondary hypotheses were that abnormal psychological/ endocrine/immune measures were associated with a poorer predicted disease outcome (as evidenced by tumour pathology).
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病,疾病, (人或社會的)惡疾,弊病…
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