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单词 white plague
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white plague
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white plague
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If ever a thriller rewarded a reader’s patience, it’s James Abel’s “White Plague.”
Washington Post(Jan 15, 2015)
White Plague” is so believable it feels like the author is reporting actual events.
Washington Times(Jan 06, 2015)
"White Plague is a prominent disease and we proved that a particular bacterium was the cause of it."
BBC(Aug 21, 2013)
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n involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
Syn|Hyper
consumption, phthisis, pulmonary tuberculosis, wasting disease
T.B., TB, tuberculosis
infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages)
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n an addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug)
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drug addiction
alcohol addiction, alcoholism, drunkenness, inebriation
habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms
cocaine addiction
an addiction to cocaine
heroin addiction
an addiction to heroin
caffein addiction
an addiction to caffein
nicotine addiction
an addiction to nicotine
addiction, dependance, dependence, dependency, habituation
being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
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