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- pronunciation:
- dih
ziz
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A disease is something wrong in your body that makes you sick or causes damage to some part of your body. Some diseases can make you sick just for a short time, but other diseases are very serious. Chicken pox and influenza are two kinds of diseases. Diseases are often caused by bacteria and viruses.
My uncle caught a disease while he was traveling, and he's in the hospital now.- synonyms:
- illness, sickness
- antonyms:
- health
- similar words:
- bug, disability, disorder, pandemic, plague, trouble
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some activities associated with diseases |
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cure, heal, identify, treat |
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some descriptions of diseases |
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contagious, deadly, mild, serious |
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some examples of diseases |
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aids, cancer, chicken pox, flu, influenza, malaria, measles, plague, pneumonia, poliomyelitis, rabies, tetanus, whooping cough, worms |
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some kinds of treatment for diseases |
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antibiotic, drug, first aid, medicine, penicillin, remedy, surgery |
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some means of disease prevention |
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checkup, hygiene, physical, vaccine, vitamin |
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some people associated with diseases |
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doctor, nurse, patient, physician, resident, surgeon |
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some places for treatment of diseases |
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clinic, hospital |
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some processes involving diseases |
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plague, spread |
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some stages of diseases |
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attack, epidemic |
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some states of people with diseases |
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ill, recovering, sick |
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some symptoms of diseases |
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ache, amnesia, bump, chill, cough, fever, pain, rash, shock, sore, sweat, temperature |
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some things that can cause or spread diseases |
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bacteria, germs, infection, mosquito, tick, virus, worm |
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tools used to study diseases |
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stethoscope |
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