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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 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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New to the second edition are chapters on cell death signaling in disease susceptibility and resistance and the role of disease resistance genes in signal perception and emission. Analysis of the very small (n = 42) subgroup of individuals with pneumococcal empyema, however, revealed associations between each NFKBIA genotype and disease susceptibility (Table 1, control 2 and IPD 2 groups). This is due to clinicians within the various health care professions who do not regularly order genetic tests to examine for disease susceptibility. |
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