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Word: Disease
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
Middle English (in the sense ‘lack of ease; inconvenience’): from Old French desaise ‘lack of ease’, from des- (expressing reversal) + aise ‘ease’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
dɪˈziːz
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that has a known cause and a distinctive group of symptoms, signs, or anatomical changes
Short Definition:disorder of structure in human
Examples:- bacterial meningitis is quite a rare disease
- heart disease
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