2.5.2 Disease
Use this domain for general words for disease and for words referring to specific diseases.
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(1) What words refer to a disease?
Example words: illness, disease, complaint, condition, ailment, disorder, infection, bug, sickness, malady, infirmity, affliction, contagion, debility, indisposition, fever, syndrome, malaise
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(2) What words refer to a disease that lasts a short time?
Example words: attack, a bout of, a touch of
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(3) What words describe a type of disease?
Example words: acute, chronic, bacterial, complication, critical, curable, degenerative, genetic, morbid, nervous, neuromuscular, psychosomatic, virus, wasting
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(4) What words describe a disease that kills people?
Example words: terminal, fatal, incurable
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(5) What words describe a disease that people can get easily?
Example words: infectious, contagious, catching
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(6) What words refer to a disease spreading to other people?
Example words: spread, epidemic, outbreak, plague
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(7) What are the names of particular diseases?
Example words: allergy, allergic, amoeba, appendicitis, cholera, colic, colicky, colitis, cyst, diabetes, diabetic, diphtheria, distemper, dropsy, dysentery, elephantiasis, encephalitis, fibrosis, fistula, flux, hypertension, gallstone, goiter, heatstroke, hernia, herpes zoster, hemophilia, hemorrhoid, hives, hookworm, kidney stone, lockjaw, lumbago, malaria, meningitis, mononucleosis, mumps, phlebitis, piles, plague, polio, poliomyelitis, psoriasis, rabid, rabies, rubella, sclerosis, sunstroke, tetanus, typhoid, typhus, yellow fever, airsick, carsick, seasick
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(8) What words refer to a disease of the brain or mind?
Example words: Alzheimer's, amnesia, stroke, depression, schizophrenia, shock, stress
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(9) What words refer to epilepsy?
Example words: epilepsy, epileptic, epileptic seizure, have a seizure, fit
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(10) What words refer to a disease of the eyes?
Example words: eye disease, glaucoma, red eyes, pinkeye, cataract, conjunctivitis, sty
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(11) What words refer to a disease of the nose and throat?
Example words: cough, whooping cough, cold, sore throat, influenza, flu, chill
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(12) What words refer to a disease of the lungs?
Example words: respiratory disease, tuberculosis, angina, asthma, asthmatic, pneumonia, emphysema, grippe, hay fever, bronchitis
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(13) What words refer to a disease of the heart?
Example words: heart attack, heart failure, coronary, arteriosclerosis, cardiovascular, fibrillation, hardening of the arteries, thrombosis, heart murmur, weak heart, heart condition
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(14) What words refer to a disease of the liver?
Example words: liver disease, hepatitis, jaundice, cirrhosis
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(15) What words refer to sexually transmitted disease?
Example words: venereal disease, AIDS, gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes
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(16) What words refer to a disease of the bones and joints?
Example words: arthritis, arthritic, stiffness of the joints, rheumatic, rheumatism, backache
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(17) What words refer to cancer?
Example words: cancer, cancerous, tumor, skin cancer, leukemia, lung cancer, liver cancer, malignancy, malignant, benign