сущ. заболевание, болезнь - industrial disease - occupational disease DISEASE сущ. 1) общ. заболевание, болезнь (нарушение нормального функционирования организма человека, животного или растения) to suffer from a disease — страдать болезнью, болеть to contract a disease, to come down with a disease — подхватить болезнь, заболеть to carry spread a disease — распространять болезнь, заражать to cure (а) disease — лечить болезнь mental disease — психическое душевное заболевание a sudden outbreak of the disease — вспышка болезни Syn: sickness See: occupational disease 2) общ. болезнь (в переносном смысле: определенная привычка, определенное поведение, состояние и т. п. (человека, группы лиц, общества в целом)) Hate is the new disease of our time. — Ненависть — это новая болезнь нашего времени. ...
n. 1 an unhealthy condition of the body (or a part of it) or the mind; illness, sickness. 2 a corresponding physical condition of plants. 3 a particular kind of disease with special symptoms or location. Etymology: ME f. OF desaise ...
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noun Etymology: Middle English disese, from Anglo-French desease, desaise, from des- dis- + eise ease Date: 14th century 1. obsolete trouble 2. a condition of the living animal or plant body or of one of its parts that impairs normal functioning and is typically manifested by distinguishing signs and symptoms ; sickness, malady 3. a harmful development (as in a social institution) • ~d adjective ...
(diseases) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. A disease is an illness which affects people, animals, or plants, for example one which is caused by bacteria or infection. ...the rapid spread of disease in the area. ...illnesses such as heart disease... N-VAR ...
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~ n 1 an illness or unhealthy condition in your body, especially one caused by infection (eye/liver/kidney etc disease) (Heart disease runs in our family. | cause disease) (filthy insanitary conditions that cause disease | infections/contagious disease (=easily passed from one person to another)) (vaccination against infectious diseases such as typhoid | suffer from a disease (=have a disease)) (She suffers from a rare disease of the central nervous system. | catch/contract a disease (=get a disease by being infected)) 2 something that is seriously wrong with society or with someone's mind, behaviour etc (Loneliness is a disease of our urban communities.) (- see also heart disease, social disease) - diseased adj (diseased muscles | a diseased plant) ( USAGE NOTE: DISEASE WORD CHOICE disease, illness Though illness and disease are often used in the same way and are equally common in spoken English, illness is really the state, or length of time, of being unwell (usually caused by some disease).). She died after a long illness. | How many working days have you missed through illness? It is diseases that have medical names, are related to parts of the body, and can be caught, carried and passed on if they are infectious a kidney/sexually-transmitted disease/infectious disease/Alzheimer's disease. However, you would usually talk about mental illness or a terminal/critical illness. ) ...