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Examples of disease in a Sentence
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Word History
Middle English disese, from Anglo-French desease, desaise, from des- dis- + eise ease
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3
Phrases Containing disease
- acute disease
- Addison's disease
- Alzheimer disease
- Alzheimer's disease
- Bang's disease
- Bright's disease
- brittle bone disease
- caisson disease
- Canavan disease
- Canavan's disease
- Castleman disease
- Castleman's disease
- cat scratch disease
- celiac disease
- Chagas disease
- Christmas disease
- chronic disease
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- chronic wasting disease
- citrus greening disease
- communicable disease
- contagious disease
- coronary artery disease
- coronary disease
- coronary heart disease
- coronavirus disease 2019
- Creutzfeld-Jakob disease
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- Crohn disease
- Crohn's disease
- Cushing's disease
- deficiency disease
- Dutch elm disease
- factitious disease
- fifth disease
- flesh-eating disease
- foot-and-mouth disease
- gastroesophageal reflux disease
- Gaucher disease
- Gaucher's disease
- graft-versus-host disease
- Guinea worm disease
- hand, foot and mouth disease
- Hansen's disease
- heart disease
- hemolytic disease of the newborn
- Hodgkin's disease
- hoof-and-mouth disease
- Huntington disease
- Huntington's disease
- infectious disease
- inflammatory bowel disease
- Johne's disease
- Kawasaki disease
- Kawasaki's disease
- kissing disease
- Legionnaire's disease
- Lou Gehrig's disease
- Lyme disease
- mad cow disease
- Marek's disease
- mental disease
- milky disease
- milky spore disease
- Ménière's disease
- mucocutaneous lymph node disease
- Newcastle disease
- new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- Paget's disease
- Paget's disease of bone
- Parkinson disease
- Parkinson's disease
- pelvic inflammatory disease
- Pierce's disease
- polycystic kidney disease
- Pott's disease
- Powassan disease
- Powassan virus disease
- prion disease
- pullorum disease
- sexually transmitted disease
- social disease
- Tay-Sachs disease
- tsutsugamushi disease
- variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- venereal disease
- von Willebrand disease
- von Willebrand's disease
- whirling disease
- Wilson's disease
- woolsorter's disease
Dictionary Entries Near disease
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“Disease.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disease. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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Medical Definition
disease
nouncalled also morbus
compare health sense 1More from Merriam-Webster on disease
Nglish: Translation of disease for Spanish Speakers
Britannica English: Translation of disease for Arabic Speakers
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