0 (an) illness of people, animals, plants, etc., caused by infection or a failure of health rather than by an accident -- 病,疾病
a contagious/infectious disease 传染病
They reported a sudden outbreak of the disease in the south of the country. 他们报告说该国南部地区突然爆发了这种疾病。
The first symptom of the disease is a very high temperature. 这种病的最初症状是高烧。
She has caught/contracted (= begun to have) a lung disease/disease of the lungs. 她患上了肺病。
Starvation and disease have killed thousands of refugees. 饥饿和疾病夺去了数千名难民的生命。
The real disease affecting the country is inflation. 影响该国的真正恶疾是通货膨胀。
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.
These changes are subtle and intermittent at first and become more permanent and obvious as the disease progresses.
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.