Collocations for "disease"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "disease" in context.
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disease
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [an incurable, a terminal, an infectious] disease
- a [chronic, recurring, contagious, hereditary, genetic] disease
- a [deadly, cruel] disease
- has [heart, liver, kidney] disease
- is [suffering, dying] from [heart] disease
- increases your risk of (developing) [heart] disease
- a disease of the [heart]
- a disease affecting [rats, animals, humans, plants]
- a disease in [humans, children, birds, trees]
- [diagnosed, discovered] the disease
- [rats, gems, bacteria, pests] spread disease
- [caught, contracted] the disease [in, when]
- is being [treated, operated on] for a [liver] disease
- the disease [can only, cannot] be cured (by)
- the progression of the disease
- (trying to find) a cure for the disease
- the disease has [spread, propagated] (to)
- the disease affects one [in 500, percent of the population]
- disease can result from [improper use, poor diet, infection]
- the disease is [spread, transmitted] by
- her [fascination, obsession] is (like) a disease
- a social disease
- disease [control, prevention]
- disease [diagnosis, prognosis]
'disease' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
aggressive
- attack
- bleeding
- blistering
- borne
- brain
- brittle
- career
- carrier
- cause
- confine
- consume
- contract
- control
- cow
- crippled
- cure
- delay
- detection
- develop
- diagnosis
- dreadful
- effectively
- exposure
- extremely
- factor
- fight
- foot
- frail
- guard
- gum
- halt
- heart
- high
- highly
- hint
- hunger
- infant
- inherited
- injury
- kidney
- liver
- livestock
- marker
- mass
- measles
- medication
- mimic
- minor
- motor