Word Finder - disease

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An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.

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The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and fruit withered.

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(by extension) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.

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Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.

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To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.

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To infect with a disease.

Now the disease is eradicated.

Given all this, do you really believe this disease still has a chance?

Whatever her disease, it had eluded the doctors for months.

A world without hunger, disease, ignorance, poverty, and war is not a perfect world.

Until you can prove you've got some damn disease, you're on leave without pay.

The most recent statistics show the disease to be diminishing.

Disease is a problem of technology; thus, its solution will be technological.

New, disease resistant trees are bringing back the splendor of what has been called one of the prettiest towns in New England.

The expedition, which originally numbered 2500 men, was reduced by deaths at the hands of the Indians, by disease and privation, within a year to less than Soo men.

A future without disease as we understand the term's meaning today.

Cancer of the Stomach is a common disease.

What evil and error are there in it, if people were dying of disease without help while material assistance could so easily be rendered, and I supplied them with a doctor, a hospital, and an asylum for the aged?

The yellowing and subsequent casting of leaves, for instance, is a very general symptom of disease in plants, and may be induced by drought, extremes of temperature, insufficient or excessive illumination, excess of water at the roots, the action of parasitic Fungi, insects, worms, &c., or of poisonous gases, and so forth; and extreme caution is necessary in.

I'm sure she caught that dreadful disease from one of them and it killed her.

Even though, in his all too brief pontificate, he failed to attain any definite results, he at least fulfilled the first condition of any cure by laying bare the seat of disease, gave an important impetus to the cause of the reform of the Church, and laid down the principles on which this was afterwards carried through.

I am also a historian with a full understanding of how poverty, disease, ignorance, famine, and war have dominated life on this planet.

All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad and does me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it.

There and in Lombardy the disease known as pellagra is most widely diffused.

It must not be overlooked that the living cells of the plant react upon the parasite as well as to all external agencies, and the nature of disease becomes intelligible only if we bear in mind that it consists in such altered metabolismdeflected physiologyas is here implied.

The seriousness of the damage done is illustrated by the ravages of the larch disease, apple canker, &c.

This disease is more accidental than contagious and rarely takes very dangerous proportions.

It was a land of perpetual sunshine and great fertility; its inhabitants were free from disease and war.

The object of the hybridizer is to obtain varieties exhibiting improvements in hardihood, vigour, size, shape, colour, fruitfulness, resistance to disease or other attributes.

Claire gave a hint of a nod, remaining under the archway to the parlor, as if entering might subject her to some vile disease from these common folk.

The terrible losses sustained by whole communities of farmers, planters, foresters, &c., from plant diseases have naturally stimulated the search for remedies, but even now the search is too often conducted in the spirit of the believer in quack medicines, although the agricultural world is awakening to the fact that before any measures likely to be successful can be attempted, the whole chain of causation of the disease must be investigated.

We may often distinguish between primary symptoms and secondary or subordinate symptoms, but for the purposes of classification in an article of this scope we shall only attempt to group the various cases under the more obvious signs of disease exhibited.

Spotted Leaves, &c.Discoloured spots or patches on leaves and other herbaceous parts are common symptoms of disease, and often furnish clues to identification of causes, though it must be remembered that no sharp line divides this class of symptoms from the preceding.

Dilophia, Rhytisma, &c. Moreover, variegations deceptively like these disease spots are known, e.g.

The French Academy charged de Quatrefages, Decaisne and Peligot with the study of the disease, and they issued two elaborate reports - Etudes sur les maladies actuelles des vers soie (18J9) and Nouvelles Recherches sur les maladies actuelles des vers a soie (1860); but the suggestions they were able to offer had not the effect of stopping the march of the disease.

In this connexion he established the very important practical conclusion that worms which contract the disease during their own life-cycle retain sufficient vitality to feed, develop and spin their cocoon, although the next generation is invariably infected and shows the disease in its most virulent and fatal form.

The disease is characterized by the decomposition of the blood; in fact it is really a form of dropsy.

If the attack comes on a short time before maturity, the worms are able to spin a cocoon of a feeble character, but worms with this disease never change into chrysalides, but always die in the cocoon before transformation can take place.

Another cause of serious loss to the rearers is occasioned by Flacherie, a disease well known from the earliest times.

Pasteur showed that the origin of the disease proceeded from microscopic organisms called ferments and vitrios.

Flacherie is an intestinal disease of the cholera species and therefore contagious.

The export became important just at the time when disease in Europe had lessened the production on the continent.

In medicine, the term is applied to a school of physicians who, in the time of Celsus and Galen, advocated accurate observation of the phenomena of health and disease in the belief that only by the collection of a vast mass of instances would a true science of medicine be attained.

The drug has been highly and widely recommended in general paralysis, but there remains grave doubt as to its utility in this disease.

The people kiss the cross and bow down to it; and ever after Christ's spirit is enshrined in it; it cures disease, drives off demons, and wards off wind and hail.

On the 19th of April 1791 he died, worn out with suffering and disease.

The disease was inherent in the body politic. Each pope, confronted by the spectre of Ne p otism.

In pneumonia and other acute disease, where the patient is liable to sudden collapse, a hypodermic injection of strychnine will often save the patient's life.

For physiognomy of disease, besides the usual medical handbooks, see Cabuchet, Essai sur l'expression de la face dans les maladies (Paris, 1801); Mantegazza, Physiology of Pain (1893), and Polli, Saggio di fisiognomonia e potognomonia (1837).

The ill-success of the old king in this war aggravated the disease from which he was suffering; and his heart was broken by the discovery that John, for whose sake he had alienated Richard, was in secret league with the victorious allies.

Even to-day the ignorant peasantry of many European countries, Russia, Galicia and elsewhere, believe that all disease is the work of demons, and that medicinal herbs owe their curative properties to their being the materialized forms of benevolent spirits.

Disease was generally attributed to the anger of the gods.

The factors that enable us to solve for and eliminate disease are getting better all the time, like wind at our back, pushing us forward.

Louis Pasteur came along around this same time and proffered the germ theory of disease and a vaccine for rabies.

Four of the problems I address in this book—ignorance, disease, famine, and poverty—are purely technical problems.

But a world without want and without disease, a world with opportunity for all, is a world where getting along—even when we don't see eye to eye—is going to be a good bit easier.