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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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Sweet taste receptors remain intact through the end stage; therefore, residents with end-stage disease usually favor sweets and can be enticed to eat by adding sweet thickeners to their foods. If action is not taken now, the health costs in 20 years as these people reach end-stage disease "will be stupendous," he warns. Studies have shown that disability occurs quickly, radiographic progression with erosions and bone loss can be rapid and continues to progress over decades, and mortality rates in severe end-stage disease are comparable to three-vessel coronary artery disease or stage IV Hodgkin's lymphoma. |
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