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disease

noun affliction, ailment, attack, bodily deviation from health, bout of sickness, breakdown, chronic disability, collapse, condition, contagion, defect, deterioration, discomfort, disorder, distemper, epidemic, handicap, ill health, illness, indisposition, infection, infirmity, invalidism, loss of health, malady, morbus, plague, scourge, sickness, taint, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unwholesome condition, virus, weakness

See also: contaminate, disorder, pain, taint

References in periodicals archive ?

He and his colleagues injected Looper and 20 other boys who have Duchenne's muscular dystrophy with solutions containing billions of healthy myoblasts.

Miller's own unpublished research, funded in part by MDA, suggests that cyclosporine temporarily improves muscle strength in boys with Duchenne's muscular dystrophy.

Muscular dystrophy: new focus on myoblasts

This new technique can also handle genes that are too large to fit into a viral package, such as the gene for Duchenne's muscular dystrophy, Calos said.