单词	disease
释义	diseasedis‧ease /dɪˈziːz/ ●●● S3 W1 noun Word Origin WORD ORIGINdisease Origin: 1300-1400 Old French desaise, from aise ‘relaxed feeling, comfort’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Anyone can catch the disease -- not just homosexual men or drug addicts. Childhood diseases such as measles and chickenpox are highly contagious. Malaria is still a common disease in West Africa and is often fatal. Nationalism can be a serious disease. She suffers from a rare disease of the nervous system. Smoking is a major cause of heart disease. The most common symptoms of the disease are a high temperature and spots all over the body. Thousands of people in this area are dying from hunger and disease. Travellers to India are advised to get vaccinated against infectious diseases such as typhoid before they go. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Diverticular disease is a condition of the bowel caused by abnormal activity of the bowel wall when your diet contains insufficient fibre. Fat control is still very important for reducing risks for heart disease, some cancers and obesity. Freedom from internal bruising, disease, cracking and greening. 5. Many had been lost through disease or in the floods or to thieves. Six Crohn's disease cultures and a single non-inflammatory bowel disease control were positive for M paratuberculosis. The mental, emotional and other consequences are similar for all addictive disease. We are bitten by mites and ticks, some of which carry dangerous diseases, and by fleas. Whether the abandoned innards, which are consumed by coyotes and ravens, harbor the disease is hotly debated. Thesaurus THESAURUS► illness something wrong with your health which makes you feel ill: · Her husband was in hospital for six months with a serious illness. ► disease a particular illness, especially one that spreads to other people easily or that affects one part of your body: · childhood diseases such as measles and chickenpox· heart disease ► infection an illness that is caused by bacteria or a virus: · His cough got worse and worse and became a chest infection. ► condition a health problem that affects you permanently or for a long time: · a medical condition such as asthma· a heart condition ► problem [usually after a noun] something that is wrong with a particular part of your body or your health in general: · a serious back problem· health problems ► trouble [singular, only after a noun] illness or pain that affects a particular part of your body: · I’ve had a bit of stomach trouble. ► disorder formal an illness that prevents a particular organ of your body from working properly, or affects the way you behave: · a liver disorder· a blood disorder· Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder. Longman Language Activatoran illness► illness a health problem that you are suffering from which makes you feel ill: · She died yesterday after a long illness.suffer from an illness: · People are often too embarrassed to admit that they have suffered from any form of mental illness.recover from an illness: · 80% of patients now recover completely from this illness and are able to lead perfectly normal lives.contract an illness formal (=get or begin to have an illness, especially a serious one): · Doctors believe he may have contracted the illness while he was in Africa.minor illness (=one that is not serious): · Minor illnesses such as colds are usually best left to get better by themselves.terminal illness (=one that cannot be cured and causes death): · Should doctors always tell patients that they have terminal illnesses such as cancer?serious illness (=one that makes you very ill): · You are allowed time off work only in cases of serious illness or bereavement. ► disease a particular illness that has a medical name: · The most common symptoms of the disease are a high temperature and spots all over the body.· Thousands of people in this area are dying from hunger and disease.catch a disease (=get a disease from another person): · Anyone can catch the disease -- not just homosexual men or drug addicts.suffer from a disease (=have a disease): · She suffers from a rare disease of the nervous system.infectious disease (=easily passed from one person to another by breathing): · Travellers to India are advised to get vaccinated against infectious diseases such as typhoid before they go.contagious disease (=easily passed from one person to another by touch): · Childhood diseases such as measles and chickenpox are highly contagious.fatal disease (=one which causes death): · Malaria is still a common disease in West Africa and is often fatal.heart/lung/kidney etc disease: · Smoking is a major cause of heart disease. ► virus a small living thing that causes infectious illnesses, or a type of infectious illness: · the virus that causes the common cold· He could be carrying the AIDS virus.· It is estimated that over thirty million people are now infected with the virus.· a vaccine which protects against Hepatitis B, a highly infectious virus which is transmitted sexually or by sharing infected needles.· She thinks she picked up some kind of mystery virus while she was on vacation. ► bug informal an illness that people catch very easily from each other but that is not very serious: pick up a bug (=get a bug): · I think I've picked up the bug that's been going round the office.stomach/tummy bug (=illness affecting the stomach): · Gemima's been off school with a tummy bug this week.catch a bug: · Young schoolkids are always catching various bugs. ► infection an illness that is caused by bacteria and that affects one part of your body, such as your ears, throat, lungs, or skin: · If you don't clean the wound properly you could get an infection.throat/ear/lung etc infection: · Roz was suffering from a throat infection and could hardly talk. ► condition a problem that affects someone's health permanently or over a long period of time: · People with your condition should not smoke.suffer from a condition: · Diane suffers from a rare heart condition which means she has to take drugs all the time. ► ailment formal an illness of condition, especially one that affects a particular part of your body: · The medicine was supposed to cure all kinds of ailments, ranging from colds to back pains.· The most commonly reported ailment among VDU operators is eye-strain.minor ailment: · Patients who often complain of minor ailments might have something more important on their minds. ► disorder an illness that prevents part of your body from working properly or affects the way you behave, especially one that is permanent or continues for a long time: eating/personality disorder: · Children with eating disorders such as anorexia need close supervision.stomach/liver/skin etc disorder: · Minor stomach disorders are common when travelling abroad.· Eventually after weeks of tests they discovered I had a rare liver disorder.disorder of the liver/stomach/brain etc: · The hospital specializes in treating disorders of the brain. ► complaint an illness that affects a particular part of your body, especially one that is not very serious - used especially by doctors or in medical books: · The cream is normally used for treating minor skin complaints.· Hay fever is a common complaint in spring and summer. to have an illness► have also have got British to have an illness: · Beth has an awful cold.· I had all the usual childhood illnesses.· Have you ever had pneumonia?· I think Jo's got flu. ► suffer from to have a particular type of illness or health problem, especially one that is serious or one that you have often: · Dewey had been in hospital for several weeks suffering from malaria.· She suffers from asthma attacks. ► there's something wrong with informal use this to say that you have a medical problem affecting part of your body, but you are not sure exactly what it is: · There's something wrong with my chest - it feels really tight.· We thought there might be something wrong with her hearing. ► with use this before the name of a disease, to say that someone has this disease: · "Where's Helen?" "She's in bed with flu."· The charity provides support for people with AIDS. ► complain of to tell a doctor that you have a particular kind of pain or other sign of being ill - used especially to say what the person who is ill said: · He was admitted to hospital complaining of severe stomach pains.· Many patients complain of headaches and difficulty sleeping when they take this drug. ► be infected with to have an illness, especially a serious illness, that you caught from another person: · Figures released last week put the number of people infected with HIV at over 30,000.· Did you know when you first met him that he was infected with the disease? to start to have an illness► get to start to have an illness: · I feel all hot - I think I'm getting flu.· Smoking increases the risk of getting cancer.get something from/off someone (=get an infectious disease from someone else): · He thinks he got the cold from someone in the office. ► catch to get a disease from someone else: · Luke has measles. I hope I don't catch it.catch something from/off somebody: · I think I must have caught the flu from Sarah. ► come down with also go down with something British spoken to start to have an illness, especially one that is not serious: · I'm afraid we can't come this weekend - the baby's gone down with a sore throat. ► pick up to get a not very serious illness such as a cold, a stomach problem etc - use this especially to say where you got it: pick up something: · I picked up a stomach bug on holiday in Turkey.pick something up: · Brendan has a cold. He must have picked it up at school. ► develop to gradually become ill with a particular illness, but not by catching it from someone else: · After her family brought her home from hospital, she developed pneumonia.· It is possible to develop diabetes in adulthood. ► contract to get a serious illness - used especially in formal or medical contexts: · Orwell contracted tuberculosis during the war and eventually died from the disease.· Dr Chalmers is trying to find out how many people may have contracted the disease in her area. a short illness► attack when you suddenly begin to have an illness that you often have, especially when this only continues for a short time: · One of my students suddenly had an attack of asthma and I didn't know what to do.· Malaria often doesn't go away completely, and a patient may suffer from repeated attacks over several years. ► a bout of a short period of suffering from an illness, especially one that is not serious: · In recent months he had had several bouts of flu.· The patient may experience bouts of nausea as a result of the treatment. ► a touch of informal a short period of suffering from an illness that is not serious: · It's nothing serious -- just a touch of indigestion.· I feel like I'm getting a touch of flu. when a lot of people have an illness► outbreak when a lot of people suddenly start to get an illness at the same time: outbreak of: · Doctors are very concerned about an outbreak of tuberculosis in an East London School. ► epidemic when a lot of people in an area or country get a disease, and it spreads very quickly: · AIDS has become an epidemic in some countries.· Doctors warn that a flu epidemic may be on the way. WORD SETS► Illness & Disability abscess, nounache, verbache, nounacne, nounagoraphobia, nounagoraphobic, nounague, noun-aholic, suffixAIDS, nounailment, nounairsick, adjectivealbino, nounalcoholic, nounalcoholism, nounallergic, adjectiveallergy, nounamnesia, nounamputee, nounanaemia, nounanaemic, adjectiveangina, nounanorexia, nounanorexic, adjectiveantacid, nounanthrax, nounantibody, nounantidepressant, nounantidote, nounantigen, nounantihistamine, nounanti-inflammatory, adjectiveantitoxin, nounapoplectic, adjectiveapoplexy, nounappendicitis, nounarteriosclerosis, nounarthritis, nounaseptic, adjectiveaspirin, nounasthma, nounastigmatism, nounasymptomatic, adjectiveathlete's foot, nounatrophy, verbauto-immune disease, nounAyurvedic medicine, nounbaby blues, nounbacillus, nounbackache, nounbark, verbbattle fatigue, nounBCG, nounbedridden, adjectivebedsore, nounbed-wetting, nounbellyache, nounbenign, adjectiveberiberi, nounbespectacled, adjectivebetter, adjectivebilious, adjectivebinge, verbbiopsy, nounbirthmark, nounbite, verbbite, nounblack and blue, adjectiveBlack Death, the, black eye, nounblackout, nounbleed, verbbleeding, nounblind, verbblister, nounblister, verbblood bank, nounblood donor, nounblood poisoning, nounbloodshot, adjectiveblood transfusion, nounbloody, adjectivebloody, verbblue baby, nounboil, nounbotulism, nounbrain damage, nounbreakdown, nounbronchitis, nounbruise, nounbruise, verbBSE, nounbubonic plague, nounbug, nounbulimia, nounbump, nounbunion, nounbuzz, verbcalloused, adjectivecallus, nouncancer, nouncandida, nouncanker, nouncarbuncle, nouncarcinogen, nouncarcinogenic, adjectivecarcinoma, nouncardiac, adjectivecardiovascular, adjectivecaries, nouncarpal tunnel syndrome, nouncarrier, nouncarry, verbcarsick, adjectivecast, nouncasualty, nouncataract, nouncatarrh, nouncatatonic, adjectivecatching, adjectivecauliflower ear, nouncerebral palsy, nouncertify, verbcervical smear, nounchapped, adjectivecharley horse, nounchemotherapy, nounchesty, adjectivechicken pox, nounchilblains, nounChinese medicine, nouncholera, nounchronic, adjectivecirrhosis, nounCJD, nouncleanse, verbcleft palate, nounclinic, nounclinical, adjectiveclub foot, nouncold, nouncold sore, nouncolic, nouncolitis, nouncollapse, verbcolour-blind, adjectivecoma, nouncommon cold, nouncommon denominator, nouncommunicate, verbcomplaint, nouncomplicate, verbcomplication, nouncompound fracture, nounconcuss, verbconcussion, nouncondition, nouncongenital, adjectivecongested, adjectiveconjunctivitis, nounconstipation, nounconsumption, nounconsumptive, nouncontagion, nouncontagious, adjectivecontinent, adjectivecontract, verbcontusion, nounconvalesce, verbconvulsion, nouncorn, nouncortisone, nouncot death, nouncough, nounCPR, nouncrack-up, nouncramp, nounCreutzfeldt-Jakob disease, nouncrick, nouncrick, verbcripple, nouncripple, verbcross-eyed, adjectivecroup, nouncurable, adjectivecut, nouncyst, nouncystic fibrosis, nouncystitis, noundecompression sickness, noundeep vein thrombosis, noundeformity, noundegenerative, adjectivedehydrate, verbdelirious, adjectivedelirium, noundelusion, noundementia, noundengue fever, noundepression, noundermatitis, noundiabetes, noundiabetic, adjectivediabetic, noundiagnosis, noundialysis, noundiaper rash, noundiarrhoea, noundiphtheria, noundisability, noundisable, verbdisabled, adjectivedischarge, verbdisease, noundisgorge, verbdislocate, verbdisorder, noundissipated, adjectivedissipation, noundistemper, noundistend, verbdizzy, adjectivedoddering, adjectivedoddery, adjectivedonate, verbdonor, noundouble vision, noundoughy, adjectivedown, adverbDown's syndrome, noundrawn, adjectivedressing, noundrinker, noundrunk, adjectivedrunk, noundrunken, adjectivedull, adjectivedumb, adjectiveDVT, noundysentery, noundyslexia, noundyspepsia, noundyspeptic, adjectiveearache, nouneating disorder, nounEbola, nounectopic pregnancy, nouneczema, nounemaciated, adjectiveemasculate, verbembolism, nounemphysema, nounencephalitis, nounendoscope, nounenervate, verbenteritis, nounepidemic, nounepilepsy, nounepileptic, adjectiveepileptic, nounetiology, nounexcruciating, adjectiveexposure, nouneyeless, adjectiveeye strain, nounfail, verbfaint, nounfester, verbfever, nounfever blister, nounfevered, adjectivefeverish, adjectivefirst aid, nounfit, nounflat feet, nounflat-footed, adjectiveflu, nounfood poisoning, nounfoot and mouth disease, nounfracture, verbfracture, nounfrostbite, noungall, noungammy, adjectiveganglion, noungangrene, noungas, noungash, noungastric, adjectivegastritis, noungastroenteritis, nounGerman measles, nounget, verbgingivitis, nounglandular fever, nounglaucoma, noungnarled, adjectivegonorrhea, noungout, noungrand mal, noungraze, verbgraze, noungriping, adjectivegroggy, adjectivegrowing pains, noungrowth, noungush, verbgynaecology, nounhacking cough, nounhaemophilia, nounhaemophiliac, nounhaemorrhage, nounhaemorrhage, verbhaemorrhoids, nounhalitosis, nounhandicap, nounhandicapped, adjectivehangover, nounhard of hearing, adjectiveharelip, nounhay fever, nounheadache, nounhealth, nounheart attack, nounheartburn, nounheart disease, nounheart failure, nounheat exhaustion, nounheat rash, nounheatstroke, nounheave, verbhepatitis, nounhernia, nounherpes, nounHIV, nounhormone replacement therapy, nounhospital, nounhospitalize, verbhot flush, nounhousebound, adjectiveHRT, nounhump, nounhumpback, nounhunchback, nounhungover, adjectivehydrophobia, nounhypertension, nounhypothermia, nounhysterectomy, nounhysteria, nounhysterical, adjectiveillness, nounimmune, adjectiveimmune system, nounimmunity, nounimmunize, verbimmunology, nounimpacted, adjectiveimpediment, nounimpetigo, nounimpotent, adjectiveincision, nounincontinent, adjectiveincubate, verbincurable, adjectiveindigestion, nounindisposed, adjectiveindisposition, nouninfantile, adjectiveinfantile paralysis, nouninfect, verbinfected, adjectiveinfection, nouninfectious, adjectiveinfirmity, nouninflammation, nouninflammatory, adjectiveinfluenza, nouninfusion, nouningrowing, adjectiveinoculate, verbinoperable, adjectiveinsane, adjectiveinsanity, nouninsomnia, nouninsomniac, nouninstability, nounintensive care, nounintravenous, adjectiveinvalid, nouninvalidity, nouninvasive, adjectiveirregular, adjectiveirritable bowel syndrome, nounirritant, nounirritate, verbirritated, adjectiveirritation, noun-ism, suffixisolation, nounjaundice, nounjaundiced, adjectivejet lag, nounknock-kneed, adjectiveknotted, adjectivelaceration, nounlaryngitis, nounlegionnaire's disease, nounleper, nounleprosy, nounlesion, nounleukemia, nounlisp, nounlisteria, nounliverish, adjectivelockjaw, nounlong-sighted, adjectiveloose, adjectivelozenge, nounlumbago, nounlunacy, nounLyme disease, nounmad cow disease, nounmalady, nounmalaise, nounmalaria, nounmalformation, nounmalignancy, nounmalignant, adjectivemalnourished, adjectivemalnutrition, nounmange, nounmangy, adjectivemania, nounmanic, adjectivemanic depression, nounmastitis, nounME, nounmeasles, nounmedicinal, adjectivemegalomania, nounmegalomaniac, nounmelancholia, nounmelancholic, adjectivemelanoma, nounmend, verbmeningitis, nounmentally handicapped, adjectivemigraine, nounmild, adjectivemiscarriage, nounmole, nounmongol, nounmono, nounmononucleosis, nounmorbid, adjectivemorning sickness, nounmoron, nounmotion sickness, nounmotor neurone disease, nounMRI, nounMRSA, nounMS, nounmultiple sclerosis, nounmumps, nounmurmur, nounmusclebound, adjectivemuscular dystrophy, nounmute, adjectivemute, nounmyopia, nounmyopic, adjectivemyxomatosis, nounnarcolepsy, nounnausea, nounnauseate, verbnauseous, adjectivenearsighted, adjectivenervous breakdown, nounnettle rash, nounneuralgia, nounneurosis, nounneurotic, adjectivenosebleed, nounnotifiable, adjectiveNSU, nounobesity, nounoff-colour, adjectiveoperate, verboperation, nounophthalmic, adjectiveophthalmology, noun-osis, suffixosteoarthritis, nounosteopathy, nounosteoporosis, nounoutpatient, nounoverbite, nounpacemaker, nounpaediatrics, nounpale, adjectivepallid, adjectivepallor, nounpalpitate, verbpalpitations, nounpalsy, nounpandemic, nounparalyse, verbparalysed, adjectiveparalysis, nounparalytic, adjectiveparalytic, nounparanoia, nounparaplegia, nounparaplegic, nounparasitic, adjectiveParkinson's disease, nounparoxysm, nounpasty, adjectivepasty-faced, adjectivepathogen, nounpathological, adjectivepathology, nounpeaked, adjectivepeaky, adjectivepellagra, nounpeptic ulcer, nounperforated, adjectiveperiod pain, nounperitonitis, nounpernicious anaemia, nounpersecution complex, nounpestilence, nounpestilential, adjectivepetit mal, nounpharyngitis, nounphlebitis, nounphlegm, noun-phobic, suffixphysiotherapy, nounpigeon-toed, adjectivepins and needles, nounplacebo, nounplague, nounplaque, nounplaster cast, nounpleurisy, nounPMS, nounPMT, nounpneumonia, nounpockmark, nounpockmarked, adjectivepoisoning, nounpolio, nounpolyp, nounpoor, adjectivepost-traumatic stress disorder, nounpremenstrual tension, nounprescribe, verbprescription, nounpreventive medicine, nounprickle, verbprickly heat, nounprognosis, nounprolapse, nounprophylactic, adjectiveprophylactic, nounprophylaxis, nounpsoriasis, nounpsychopath, nounpsychosis, nounpsychosomatic, adjectivepsychotic, adjectivepuffy, adjectivepull, verbpurulent, adjectivepus, nounpustule, nounqueasy, adjectiverabid, adjectiverabies, nounradiation sickness, nounradiography, nounrash, nounraw, adjectivereact, verbreaction, nounreceive, verbrecuperate, verbrecuperative, adjectiveregurgitate, verbrelapse, verbremission, nounrepetitive strain injury, nounresistance, nounrespond, verbretch, verbRhesus factor, nounrheumatic, adjectiverheumatic fever, nounrheumatism, nounrheumatoid arthritis, nounrickets, nounringworm, nounRSI, nounrubella, nounrun-down, adjectiverunny, adjectiverupture, nounsaddle-sore, adjectivesalmonella, nounscab, nounscabby, adjectivescabies, nounscald, verbscald, nounscaly, adjectivescar, nounscar, verbscarlet fever, nounschizophrenia, nounsciatica, nounsclerosis, nounscrape, verbscrape, nounscratch, nounscurvy, nounseasick, adjectiveseizure, nounself-examination, nounsenile, adjectivesenile dementia, nounsenseless, adjectivesepsis, nounseptic, adjectivesepticaemia, nounserum, nounset, verbsexually transmitted disease, nounshell shock, nounshell-shocked, adjectiveshingles, nounshock, nounshort-sighted, adjectivesickle-cell anaemia, nounsickly, adjectivesickness, nounside effect, nounsightless, adjectivesimple fracture, nounsleeping sickness, nounslipped disc, nounsmallpox, nounsnakebite, nounsnow blindness, nounsore, adjectivesore, nounspastic, adjectivespecial needs, nounspecimen, nounspina bifida, nounsprain, verbsputum, nounsquint, verbsquint, nounstammer, nounstarvation, nounstarve, verbSTD, nounstomachache, nounstone, nounstrain, nounstrain, verbstrangulated, adjectivestrep throat, nounstroke, nounsty, nounsuccumb, verbsufferer, nounsunstroke, nounsuperbug, nounsurgical, adjectiveswelling, nounswollen, adjectivesymptom, nounsymptomatic, adjectivesyndrome, nounsyphilis, nounTB, nountear, verbtetanus, nountherapeutic, adjectivetherapy, nounthrombosis, nounthrush, nountic, nountight, adjectivetingle, verbtinnitus, nountipsy, adjectivetonsillitis, nountoothache, nountorment, nountourniquet, nountoxaemia, nountoxic shock syndrome, nountraction, nountransfusion, nountrauma, nountravel sickness, nountreatment, nountremor, nountuberculosis, nountumour, nountunnel vision, nountwinge, nountwitch, nountyphoid, nountyphus, nounulcer, nounulcerate, verbultrasound, noununderweight, adjectiveundressed, adjectiveunhealthy, adjectiveuntreated, adjectivevaccinate, verbvaccine, nounvaricose veins, nounVD, nounvenereal disease, nounverruca, nounvertigo, nounviral, adjectivevirology, nounvirulent, adjectivevomit, verbvomit, nounwart, nounweak, adjectiveweal, nounweep, verbwheeze, verbwheeze, nounwheezy, adjectivewhiplash, nounwhooping cough, nounwind, nounwithered, adjectivewound, nounwrench, verbwriter's cramp, nounyaws, nounyeast infection, nounyellow fever, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs► have a disease · How long have you had the disease? ► suffer from a disease · About three million people suffer from the disease. ► catch/get a disease (also contract a disease formal)· He caught the disease while travelling in Africa. ► develop a disease · A few years ago, she developed a serious lung disease. ► pass on a disease (also transmit a disease formal)· They may pass the disease on to their children. ► cause a disease · Smoking is probably the major factor causing heart disease. ► prevent a disease · It has been claimed that fibre in the diet could help prevent many serious diseases. ► treat a disease · The disease can be treated with antibiotics. ► cure a disease · The plant was believed to cure diseases in humans and cattle. ► fight (a) disease (=try to stop it continuing)· Some bacteria help the human body fight disease. ► a disease spreads · The government have no idea how far the disease has spread. ADJECTIVES/NOUN + disease► common · common childhood diseases ► rare · She suffers from a rare bone disease. ► serious · vaccines against serious diseases like hepatitis and meningitis ► fatal/deadly (=that causes death)· If left untreated, the disease can be fatal.· Thousands of children are struck down by this deadly disease every year. ► incurable (=that cannot be cured)· Diseases that were once thought incurable can be treated with antibiotics. ► infectious/contagious (=that spreads quickly from one person to another)· The disease is highly contagious. ► a skin/brain/lung etc disease · The fumes have caused skin diseases among the villagers. ► heart/liver/kidney disease · He is being treated for kidney disease. ► a hereditary/inherited disease (=that is passed from parent to child)· Parents are offered screening for some hereditary diseases. ► a sexually-transmitted disease (=that is spread by having sex)· There was a worrying rise in the number of sexually-transmitted diseases. ► a degenerative disease (=that gradually gets worse)· She was suffering from a degenerative disease that confined her to a wheelchair. ► a chronic disease (=continuing for a long time and not possible to cure)· Chronic disease is sometimes seen as an inevitable part of being old. phrases► a cure for a disease · There is no known cure for this disease. ► an outbreak of a disease (=when a disease appears in a number of people or animals)· There has been an outbreak of the disease in Wales. ► the spread of a disease · Knowing the facts about AIDS can prevent the spread of the disease. ► the symptoms of a disease (=physical signs that someone has a disease)· To begin with, there are often no symptoms of the disease. COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► bone disease · He suffered from a rare bone disease. ► cause (a) disease · Scientists are trying to find out what causes the disease. ► a childhood illness/disease · measles and other common childhood illnesses ► deadly disease/virus ► dental disease/problems/decay etc ► a devastating disease/illness · Cheaper medicines are needed to fight Aids and other devastating diseases. ► heart disease · Smoking increases the risk of heart disease. ► incurable disease/illness/condition  She has a rare, incurable disease. ► a skin condition/complaint/disease · She suffers from a nasty skin condition. ► a disease spreads/is spread (=among a group of people)· The disease is spread by mosquitoes. ► tropical diseases/medicine (=diseases that are common in hot countries or the study of these diseases) ► waterborne disease/illness etc  waterborne diseases such as cholera COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► active · Four patients with clinically active Crohn's disease of the terminal ileum were also studied.· Twelve patients with clinically active disease had normal erythrocyte sedimentation rate values; all of these had raised scan score.· In another trial this type of diet was as effective as an elemental diet in inducing remission in active Crohn's disease.· All patients had endoscopically active disease of various degrees.· Laboratory tests are frequently normal in patients with unequivocally active disease and viceversa.· One patient with active disease underwent colectomy 2 months later and developed renal insufficiency because of amyloid deposits 6 months later.· Comparing free and acyl carnitine concentrations between the groups, the patients with active coeliac disease had the lowest concentration.· The patients with active disease and the patients with disease in remission were younger than the controls. ► cardiovascular · Firstly, programming of cardiovascular disease may continue during infancy.· The camera tracks the movement of these materials, thus assisting in diagnosis of cancers or various types of cardiovascular disease.· There were no trends in standardised mortality ratios from cardiovascular disease or other causes with the number of previous pregnancies.· The antioxidants, these studies suggest, help provide protection against cardiovascular disease and cancer.· Further, butter consumption has declined because of the implication of its saturated fatty acids in cardiovascular disease.· The overall death rate from cardiovascular disease was close to the national average, the standardised mortality ratio being 94.· Adults can fall victim to blood pressure increases, hypertension, cardiovascular disease and death. ► chronic · Introduction Familial occurrence of chronic inflammatory bowel disease has been reported in several studies during the past decades.· The chronic disease, whose cause is unknown, struck during Valerie's senior year in high school in McClusky, N.D.· The rich eat too much meat and suffer from chronic constipation, diseases of the bowel, gout, and bladder stones.· Sacristán and colleagues refer to chronic obstructive airways disease in the context of irreversible airways obstruction, which we did not discuss.· Diet, nutrition and chronic disease: lessons from contrasting worlds.· These were people suffering from chronic diseases.· Indeed, there were fewer patients than expected taking NSAIDs, perhaps since intake had been reduced because of chronic duodenal ulcer disease.· They may be appropriate, however, in patients where the history or examination points to systemic disease such as chronic liver disease. ► coeliac · It has been associated with coeliac disease, small bowel lymphoma, and Menetrier's disease.· Similar studies of intestinal antibodies might facilitate the detection of latent coeliac disease in other situations.· This is not to say that lower gliadin doses are not potentially harmful to coeliac disease subjects.· Persistent infection with adenovirus 12 has not been detected in the small bowel of patients with coeliac disease.· Comparing free and acyl carnitine concentrations between the groups, the patients with active coeliac disease had the lowest concentration.· Therefore, this study investigated carnitine concentrations in serum of patients with coeliac disease.· Group 2 comprised biopsies from patients previously diagnosed as having coeliac disease.· An increased permeability of the mucosa in patients with coeliac disease has previously been shown by Bjarnason etal. ► contagious · Like the contagious diseases defeat, Simon's resignation was received as a serious blow by the medical profession.· For many patients, acute care came in county or city general hospitals where patients with contagious diseases were sent.· Should she concoct some story about him having a violently contagious disease?· Each hospital that took patients with contagious diseases established quarantine periods.· The purpose of the statute was to lessen the risk of cattle catching a contagious disease while in transit.· He immediately ordered a spinal tap that confirmed polio, and she was moved to the floor for contagious diseases.· In the 1860s medical interventions into the contagious diseases debate polarized earlier representations of female sexuality.· He tore at his blindfold as if it were a contagious body whose disease he might catch. ► coronary · South Tees workplace health spokeswoman Anne Newnam said the charter aimed to reduce the death rates from coronary heart disease.· That includes 459,841 from coronary heart disease and 158,448 from stroke.· That diet is associated with the group's continuing lower coronary heart disease rates, despite higher blood pressure.· He proved that it is indeed possible to reverse coronary heart disease in unhealthy middle-aged people.· Discussion Overall we found that periodontal disease was associated with a small increased risk of coronary heart disease.· Gingivitis did not increase the risk of coronary heart disease, whereas periodontitis or having no teeth increased it by about 25%.· Such survivors, after all, form by far the greatest proportion of patients with coronary disease.· It is often claimed that high blood cholesterol levels promote atherosclerosis and consequent coronary heart disease. ► deadly · The vaccine brings hope to 1,300 young children struck down by the Hib form of deadly disease every year.· A prostate cancer patient, Milken continues to search for cures for the deadly disease, Reese said.· In a small enterprise or department, management by inertia is a deadly disease.· And he was the one who helped her make decisions about how to respond to the deadly disease.· Recognizing that the epidemic was due to this deadly disease, he kept careful notes of every case.· Nations around the world are changing animal husbandry practices to block the potential spread of deadly animal disease to the dinner table.· This is not a deadly disease, but does spoil established waterlilies. ► degenerative · The new discipline thus has the capacity to lead the way to breakthroughs in the treatment of any number of degenerative diseases.· Her problem was arthritis and degenerative diseases of the heart.· Suddenly everything seems to cause cancer or degenerative heart disease or premature loss of memory.· All these are degenerative diseases of the central nervous system.· The abnormal proteins produced by these degenerative diseases are relatively indigestible, so they build up in the lysosome.· They are known, collectively, as degenerative diseases.· These degenerative diseases - spongiform encephalopathies - have been linked to the production of abnormal proteins in the brain. ► fatal · She will host the surprise get-together tomorrow as a thank you to the victims of a fatal muscle wasting disease.· At that time, this was a fatal disease.· Botulism is another fatal disease which has come to the fore in recent years.· These include the more firmly established association between the drugs and a potentially fatal lung disease, primary pulmonary hypertension.· This chapter has dealt with the mechanism of a debilitating and often fatal symptom of disease, namely diarrhoea.· For, unfortunately, even when science eliminates all fatal diseases, 100 percent of us still are going to die.· In Britain 70 people have died and nine others are infected by the invariably fatal disease.· And there will be fatal accidents and disease. ► incurable · Just inhaling the thick stench down here can fill a person with incurable disease.· Paycheck dependency is sometimes an incurable disease.· On the other hand, aphids can infect raspberries with incurable virus diseases, and blackcurrant reversion is spread by big-bud mites.· How would you feel, say, if you had an incurable disease, or a terminal illness?· In an extreme example, imagine you have been told you have an incurable disease.· And, tragically, A-T is - as yet - an incurable disease.· We were informed she has a rare, incurable disease.· Old age is an incurable disease, see. people think they ought to do something for you. ► infectious · Before either ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease was diagnosed infectious and neoplastic diseases had to be ruled out.· These figures and other measures, however, most likely underestimate the impact of infectious diseases.· Apart from smallpox it was the first major infectious disease to decline.· This outbreak illustrates how factors such as weather and demographic changes can affect the emergence of public health problems from infectious diseases.· Focuses on the links between overcrowding and the incidence of respiratory and infectious disease.· Establish a public health laboratory fellowship in infectious diseases.· The biggest risk to humans however lies in the rats' ability to carry infectious diseases.· Elsewhere in the world, according to World Health Organization statistics, both new and re-emerging infectious diseases are raging. ► inflammatory · The mode of action of 5ASA and 4ASA in inflammatory bowel disease is unknown.· These results confirm increased macrophage activation in inflammatory bowel disease and suggest functional heterogeneity within the intestinal macrophage population.· Introduction Familial occurrence of chronic inflammatory bowel disease has been reported in several studies during the past decades.· A disturbance in immunoregulatory control has long been suspected to play a major role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease.· Nevertheless the absence of recurrence during long term follow up will be required to exclude underlying idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease.· The aim is to develop drugs for several inflammatory diseases, particularly respiratory.· Several different types of autoantibodies have been described in inflammatory bowel disease and primary sclerosing cholangitis.· While corticosteroids have an adverse effect on bone mass, this may be partly counterbalanced by improvement in the inflammatory bowel disease. ► other · The risks of catching vaccine-related meningitis were minimal compared to the benefits of immunisation against the other diseases.· It is directly responsible for 35,000 deaths from lung cancer and twice this number from other diseases every year.· In the other half the disease either remained the same, improved, or disappeared.· Dysentery and other diseases tend to spread easily in schools and poor facilities clearly make matters worse.· Is a cancer a degenerative change which arises from some other disease? 4.· Is cancer associated with other diseases? 7.· As the first medical officer of health for Lambeth he gained direct experience of cholera and other water-borne diseases. ► serious · Because a squint may be due to serious disease, its sudden appearance should always be taken seriously.· This caused a sensation in Western countries where the threat of serious infectious disease had come to be considered remote.· These data reinforce the evidence that serious endometrial disease is rare in women under 40.· Symptomatic coccidioidomycosis has a wide clinical spectrum, ranging from mild influenza-like illness to serious pulmonary disease to widespread dissemination.· Furthermore many serious injury and disease states are not accompanied by inevitable pain.· The precise cause of this serious disease is still unknown.· The diagnosis was explained and she was reassured that there was no serious disease.· New-onset headaches in the older patient suggest either depression or such serious diseases as mass lesions or temporal arteritis. ► transmitted · Design - Analytic study of surveillance data on sexually transmitted diseases.· To what extent is vaginal candidiasis a sexually transmitted disease?· Most sexually transmitted diseases are curable.· The message about acquisition of sexually transmitted diseases is a simple one.· Cystitis can also be triggered by the bacteria which cause sexually transmitted diseases such as Herpes or Trichomonas.· Can protect both partners against some sexually transmitted diseases and may protect the woman against cancer of the cervix.· Sexually transmitted diseases can prevent women from conceiving children. ► tropical · Increasingly high standards favour the larger wealthy companies that have little interest in tropical diseases.· Or what if he gets a toothache or needs an appendectomy or is bringing some incurable tropical disease over here with him?· But when there is no pressing military or colonial imperative, the developed world loses interest in tropical diseases.· I had suggested some new tropical disease was a far more likely explanation.· My father was engaged in research in tropical diseases, and he used to take me around his laboratory in Mill Hill.· For others remaining or settling around the reservoir or flooded areas, tropical diseases often become prevalent.· Maybe he was ill - delirious with some sort of tropical disease?· He also used to take me into the insect house, where he kept mosquitoes infected with tropical diseases. ► venereal · Rumour has it that he contracted a venereal disease at some point and sought medical treatment.· In 1942 and 1943 the rate of venereal disease in San Francisco rose by more than 75 percent.· Moreover, prostitution and venereal disease, supposedly eliminated under Mao, are once again flourishing.· It is not that thriving old specialty of single men and their intimates: venereal disease.· Officially reported cases of gonorrhoea, syphilis and other venereal diseases now number more than 375,000, which surely understates things.· Unlike venereal disease, leprosy came to Western attention relatively late.· These sections do not cover wilfully self-inflicted illness or venereal disease.· The rules also require women be tested for venereal diseases that might complicate abortions. NOUN► activity · There was no significant difference in the distribution of adherent strains between the colitis patient groups or with disease activity.· The hydrophobicity of isolates did not differ significantly between colitic and control groups nor were there significant differences correlated with disease activity.· The scan score correlates well with widely used clinical and laboratory markers of disease activity.· The patient's disease activity ranged from mild to severe at the time of serum collection.· Patients in whom there was a subsequent increase in disease activity were allocated to the alternative treatment group.· In patients with active disease, the visual score tended to under estimate disease activity.· There continues to be no generally accepted indicator of disease activity in Crohn's disease. ► bowel · The possible therapeutic effect of a specific receptor antagonist in inflammatory bowel disease remains to be evaluated.· A disturbance in immunoregulatory control has long been suspected to play a major role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease.· Nevertheless the absence of recurrence during long term follow up will be required to exclude underlying idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease.· Six Crohn's disease cultures and a single non-inflammatory bowel disease control were positive for M paratuberculosis.· Another possibility is that the genetic regulation of the isotype response is different in the two populations of inflammatory bowel disease patients.· Pronounced changes have been found in gut neuropeptides in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.· New corticosteroid compounds with high topical and little systemic activity seem to offer great benefit to inflammatory bowel disease patients.· Little information is currently available on the role of interleukin 1 and tumour necrosis factor in inflammatory bowel disease. ► brain · Still partially paralysed by the brain disease Guillain-Barre syndrome, he can only speak with the aid of an artificial voice box.· Some children will develop brain disease which will produce changes in mental behavior.· If the functional psychoses are not ordinary brain diseases, then what are they?· I thought it was a biologically based brain disease.· Look, you know they can give you brain diseases, don't you.· Patients who have organic brain disease are more likely to have an abnormality than those who do not.· Perhaps gene therapy could prevent the mutation of the prion gene that causes hereditary brain disease. ► heart · Alcoholism and heart disease are also serious problems.· Is as good as quitting smoking for reducing your risks for heart disease. 9.· This can have the effect of accelerating the build-up of atheroma which in turn eventually leads to heart disease.· If we cure cancer and heart disease, there could be 40 million.· We're all going to get either cancer or heart disease.· Several other recent studies have shown that moderate consumption of red wine, in particular, is helpful for preventing heart disease.· But high blood pressure makes the heart work harder resulting in heart disease.· It also is well-known that people with heart disease are more likely to be depressed than others. ► liver · In alcoholic liver disease, transplant assessment was considered appropriate in the case of sustained abstinence following medical advice.· Patients with liver disease may be susceptible to infection, particularly when this is secondary to alcohol abuse.· Examples include patients with chronic infections, inflammation, malignancies, and liver disease.· As controls, cryptogenic cases of chronic liver disease - that is without ANA-H or SMA-AA, were similarly studied.· The diagnosis of chronic liver disease was made by accepted clinical, serological and histological criteria.· Some people progress to liver disease, cirrhosis and liver cancer, and the virus can be fatal.· The woman looked as if she was suffering from a terminal liver disease. ► mouth · I suspected that some one was shooting deer, which are feared to transmit foot and mouth disease.· If they have foot and mouth disease, then they would need another month or two months.· The number of cases of foot and mouth disease in Britain is soaring.· It lies at the centre of a viral hot zone, surrounded by farms infected with foot and mouth disease.· Murrain was usually fatal, while hoof and mouth disease permanently weakened animals without causing death.· As if the countryside were not paranoid enough, along comes the spectre of foot and mouth disease.· Another hero with foot and mouth disease, feet of clay and a mouth less than squeaky clean.· Comment & Analysis / Foot in mouth disease? / Foot in mouth disease? ► neurone · Patients' records with a diagnosis of motor neurone disease at any position on the record were identified.· In addition, help is required for motor neurone disease patients with swallowing disorders.· Despite suffering from Motor Neurone disease, he's compiled valuable information to help conserve the forest and halt it's destruction.· I have had motor neurone disease for practically all my adult life.· It was a very great shock to me to discover that I had motor neurone disease.· But he suffers from motor neurone disease and needs twenty-four hour care.· The findings presented here can provide only indirect evidence about any possible adverse effect of cimetidine on motor neurone disease. ► patient · Tumour necrosis factor mRNA was detected in four of nine controls compared with 11/15 inflammatory bowel disease patients.· Five of the 26 Crohn's disease patients underwent a flexible sigmoidoscopy after four weeks of 1 mg/kg/day prednisolone therapy.· With regard to the diagnosis in approximately 10% of inflammatory bowel disease patients with colonic involvement a definite distinction can not be made.· In addition, help is required for motor neurone disease patients with swallowing disorders.· Using electron microscopy, Rubin etal showed that the tight junctions appeared morphologically unchanged in untreated coeliac disease patients.· New corticosteroid compounds with high topical and little systemic activity seem to offer great benefit to inflammatory bowel disease patients.· The role of specific acetyltransferase activity in Crohn's disease patients has not been so far studied, and deserves investigation.· Several reports have quoted numbers of affected and unaffected relatives of Crohn's disease patients, including twins. ► ulcer · In contrast, there is still a considerable dearth of knowledge on the post-therapeutic course of gastric ulcer disease.· The studies were designed to evaluate the H pylori eradication potency of the various regimens and the post-therapeutic course of ulcer disease.· The relationship between these alterations, hypergastrinaemia and chronic ulcer disease has also been suggested.· This study examined whether the phospholipid composition of the full thickness gastric mucosa is changed in peptic ulcer disease and gastritis.· We conducted such a study in patients with active duodenal ulcer disease.· The finding of enhanced fasting gastrin concentrations in H pylori positive subjects and in duodenal ulcer disease can not easily be explained.· Epigastric pain is uncommon and concurrent peptic ulcer disease may lead to an incorrect diagnosis.· H pylori was not examined because its importance in duodenal ulcer disease was not widely recognised when this study was being planned. VERB► associate · It has been associated with coeliac disease, small bowel lymphoma, and Menetrier's disease.· It is a fact that grief is especially associated with the disease.· Studies of Whitehall civil servants in 1973 and 1980 suggested that vigorous exercise at weekends was associated with less heart disease.· Activities i. Monitor the distribution of animal reservoirs and vectors associated with human disease.· Obesity is associated with vascular disease, diabetes and other grave health problems.· Elevated alkaline phosphatase is associated with liver disease and with both obstructive jaundice and intrahepatic jaundice.· Isolation of non-O1 Vibrio cholerae associated with enteric disease of herbivores in Western Colorado.· Mice can develop the full range of brain problems associated with the disease without any sign of the prions, they found. ► catch · To be recalled for a second Pap smear is to catch the disease of fear.· The Assiniboin came in to trade and hung around outside the walls and soon caught the disease.· He had gone further and had suggested that he had actually caught the disease from her.· He is believed to have caught the disease from a patient.· We all get sick, but we do not live in fear of catching every known disease.· You have got to spray as soon as you catch the disease in the crop.· The purpose of the statute was to lessen the risk of cattle catching a contagious disease while in transit.· She hoped she hadn't caught an unmentionable disease from her visit to the news-theatre. ► cause · These raised levels may be triggered by the bacteria causing gum disease, which escape into the bloodstream when gums bleed.· But the role of the fungus in causing human disease is less well understood.· The authors believed that their serological results supported the view that infection with M paratuberculosis might cause Crohn's disease.· An increasingly hot field in the industry was genomics, the search for genes that cause a disease or other condition.· Chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudoobstruction is usually caused by disease of the enteric nerves or smooth muscle.· However, there were complications that required additional surgery, jaundice possibly caused by gall-bladder disease, and pneumonia.· Britain is the world leader in deaths caused by heart disease.· Perhaps gene therapy could prevent the mutation of the prion gene that causes hereditary brain disease. ► contract · It is born to contract Alzheimer's disease.· Twenty-nine thousand people contracted the disease 226 in 1955, including almost four thousand in the Massachusetts epidemic that summer and fall.· The key message is that kids cook quick - which is not to say that they immediately contract the disease.· Some youngsters who contracted the disease had fallen from their bikes, but this was nothing more than a tragic coincidence.· Doctors were unable to determine how Venetti had contracted the disease.· Hence the complete and utter mental breakdown of whoever contracts the disease.· Humans contract the disease when bitten by mosquitoes that have been infected by primates. ► cure · Now, fruit trees are sprayed to cure their diseases, and salmon farmers use drugs by the sack.· The question is can you cure the disease before it kills you?· You can cure many genetic diseases by changing the environment.· If we cure cancer and heart disease, there could be 40 million.· Understanding how animal venoms and toxins work may one day help to cure human diseases, and experimentation is under way.· The surgeons and physicians had no medicine in their chests to cure the disease.· They are testing a genetic spray which can cure the disease in mice. ► develop · The Government warns that the offspring of affected women could also develop Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease.· If doctors could know for certain which individuals would develop the disease, they could treat potential diabetics before the process takes hold.· Some children will develop brain disease which will produce changes in mental behavior.· Even worse, they may develop some auto-immune disease.· Most of the infected babies will eventually develop the disease and die.· The poorer prognosis for linear growth among boys who develop Crohn's disease before puberty has not been previously reported.· Worse, about 75 % of kids have three or more risk factors for developing heart disease later in life. ► die · We know that all of us will eventually die from disease, natural disaster, accidents or whatever.· In addition to the political prisoners, possibly another million and a half people died from starvation, disease or overwork.· His mam was dying of some rare disease which no doctor could cure and always, but always, proved fatal.· But the number of women who die from the disease each year has remained essentially the same.· I mean, children used to die of diseases which are stamped out now.· Thousands more were dying of disease and starvation.· We do not think about dying of disease our-selves. ► emerge · Ensure that the laboratory space, equipment, and supplies needed to address emerging infectious diseases are available.· The public health infrastructure of this country is poorly prepared for the emerging disease problems of a rapidly changing world.· At the same time, our ability to detect, contain, and prevent emerging infectious diseases is in jeopardy.· These specimens may provide sentinel indicators of new pathogens and emerging diseases.· Activities i. Develop, evaluate, and assist in the implementation of guidelines for preventing emerging infectious diseases.· Other activities address the development and implementation of guidelines for preventing emerging infectious diseases and the provision of prevention information.· B.. Develop more effective international surveillance networks for the anticipation, recognition, control, and prevention of emerging infectious diseases. ► prevent · Should one seek the causes, eliminate them and so prevent the disease?· At the same time, our ability to detect, contain, and prevent emerging infectious diseases is in jeopardy.· Not only can it help control your weight and prevent heart disease, it will make you look and feel better.· And it will allow them to take positive steps to help prevent getting the disease or limit the impact of its complications.· This includes activities undertaken by individuals to prevent disease or to detect it in an asymptomatic state.· Activities i. Develop, evaluate, and assist in the implementation of guidelines for preventing emerging infectious diseases.· The protein eats normal cells, leading to the drastic weight loss which weakens patients and prevents them fighting the disease.· Q.. For several years my wife and I have been taking beta-carotene pills in an effort to prevent heart disease. ► spread · The people nearby who drank beer did not get cholera: ergo, contaminated water spread the disease.· Large and centralized food production embodies the potential to spread disease to tens of thousands of people in a matter of hours.· The shortage of cooking energy not only causes problems with nutrition, but also spreads disease. ► suffer · Her husband, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, was detained in hospital and sedated pending geriatric assessment.· Older women in the developed countries suffered unnecessarily from diseases that could have been ameliorated, cured, or even prevented.· She had been suffering from the disease for a year.· Men generally have a greater risk of suffering heart disease.· I told him that in my opinion he was suffering from valvular disease and that there was probably considerable dilation.· Besides suffering from Addison's disease, Moro was a bit of a hypochondriac and he used a lot of drugs.· He reminded her of his father, who had suffered from a lung disease.· There is not much point in weighing less but looking as if you are suffering from some wasting disease. ► transmit · Recently I treated her for a sexually transmitted disease with metronidazole, which is known to cause foetal abnormalities in rats.· When she asked him if he had a sexually transmitted disease, he said no.· Besides, early starters are more likely to have many partners, and so are at greater risk from sexually transmitted diseases.· And the third is to treat other sexually transmitted diseases.· However, semen can transmit certain diseases. ► treat · Thousands of tonnes of nutrients and uncontrolled quantities of toxic chemicals used to treat fish disease are pumped into lochs each year.· It appears to be useful in treating the auto-immune disease of lupus in humans.· However, the clues to the cause can lead to better ways of treating the disease as soon as they are recognised.· The spas treat everything from skin diseases to hypertension, cancer and intestinal problems.· At the same time it was made illegal for anyone who was not fully medically qualified and registered to treat these diseases.· Controversy exists on spread, diagnosis and how to treat the disease.· All had two or more close relatives who had been treated for the disease.· The remaining units make dialysis equipment and provide renal therapy to treat kidney disease and ease transplants. Phrases PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► wasting disease/illness A preacher, victim of a wasting illness, would refer in the pulpit to his forthcoming demise without shocking his congregation. Children have been born deformed and there are fears of genetic defects; many adults are suffering from wasting diseases. She will host the surprise get-together tomorrow as a thank you to the victims of a fatal muscle wasting disease. There is not much point in weighing less but looking as if you are suffering from some wasting disease. 1[countable, uncountable] an illness which affects a person, animal, or plantdisease of She suffers from a rare disease of the brain. His father died of heart disease. She contracted the disease while she was abroad on holiday.► see thesaurus at illness2[countable] something that is seriously wrong with society or with someone’s mind, behaviour etc:  Loneliness is a disease of our urban communities.—diseased adjective:  diseased muscles a diseased plantCOLLOCATIONSverbshave a disease· How long have you had the disease?suffer from a disease· About three million people suffer from the disease.catch/get a disease (also contract a disease formal)· He caught the disease while travelling in Africa.develop a disease· A few years ago, she developed a serious lung disease.pass on a disease (also transmit a disease formal)· They may pass the disease on to their children.cause a disease· Smoking is probably the major factor causing heart disease.prevent a disease· It has been claimed that fibre in the diet could help prevent many serious diseases.treat a disease· The disease can be treated with antibiotics.cure a disease· The plant was believed to cure diseases in humans and cattle.fight (a) disease (=try to stop it continuing)· Some bacteria help the human body fight disease.a disease spreads· The government have no idea how far the disease has spread.ADJECTIVES/NOUN + diseasecommon· common childhood diseasesrare· She suffers from a rare bone disease.serious· vaccines against serious diseases like hepatitis and meningitisfatal/deadly (=that causes death)· If left untreated, the disease can be fatal.· Thousands of children are struck down by this deadly disease every year.incurable (=that cannot be cured)· Diseases that were once thought incurable can be treated with antibiotics.infectious/contagious (=that spreads quickly from one person to another)· The disease is highly contagious.a skin/brain/lung etc disease· The fumes have caused skin diseases among the villagers.heart/liver/kidney disease· He is being treated for kidney disease.a hereditary/inherited disease (=that is passed from parent to child)· Parents are offered screening for some hereditary diseases.a sexually-transmitted disease (=that is spread by having sex)· There was a worrying rise in the number of sexually-transmitted diseases.a degenerative disease (=that gradually gets worse)· She was suffering from a degenerative disease that confined her to a wheelchair.a chronic disease (=continuing for a long time and not possible to cure)· Chronic disease is sometimes seen as an inevitable part of being old.phrasesa cure for a disease· There is no known cure for this disease.an outbreak of a disease (=when a disease appears in a number of people or animals)· There has been an outbreak of the disease in Wales.the spread of a disease· Knowing the facts about AIDS can prevent the spread of the disease.the symptoms of a disease (=physical signs that someone has a disease)· To begin with, there are often no symptoms of the disease.
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