| 单词 | filth disease |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfilth disease filth disease n. now chiefly historical any disease associated with insanitary living conditions. ΚΠ 1861 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 24 133 It arises mainly from the excess of preventible mortality from typhus, dysentery and other filth-diseases. 1913 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 13 381 Typhoid fever sweeps away 25,000 people and attacks 300,000, a preventable filth disease. 2002 R. Porter Blood & Guts i. 15 It [sc. typhus] was becoming one of the great ‘filth diseases’ of the shock towns of the Industrial Revolution. < as lemmas |
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