bilharzia
/bɪlhˈɑːɹziə/
nounan infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected
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1. Yellow fever, Leishmaniasis, bilharzia , roundworm, hook worm, the number of parasites that live in tropical regions is enormous and very often they kill humans and make-- they can't go in there to farm because they'll die.
chronic fatigue syndrome
/kɹˈɑːnɪk fɐtˈiːɡ sˈɪndɹoʊm/
nouna disorder characterized by severe fatigue that is not relieved by rest, along with other symptoms like pain, cognitive problems, and sleep disturbances
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1. He got a teaching job at John Moore's University in Liverpool, but lost that when he was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
2. There is one additional problem, it is called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or CFS.
3. - Second is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and then the third one you probably know, narcolepsy.
4. - It's Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
AIDS
/ˈeɪdz/
nouna serious disease caused by a virus that attacks the body's immune system and weakens it, can cause death in severe cases
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1. We are AIDS.
2. AIDS breeds poverty, and so on.
3. The AIDS epidemic offers an example.
4. So mismatch aids heterolysis.
5. One of the most glaring examples of these physical ailments is Aids.
encephalitis
/ɛnˌsɛfəˈɫaɪtəs/
nouninflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (`phrenitis' is no longer in scientific use)
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1. The official diagnosis was viral encephalitis, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
2. It can cause encephalitis, both acutely during the illness and, more troublingly, even several years afterwards after a recovery apparently has occurred.
3. They lead to encephalitis.
4. A promising treatment was published in 2004 for West Nile virus encephalitis.
5. In rare cases, the West Nile virus can cause encephalitis or paralysis.
glaucoma
/ɡɫɔˈkoʊmə/
nounan eye disease that damages the optic nerve and impairs vision (sometimes progressing to blindness)
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1. Good thing for me I brought my glaucoma glasses.
2. Last year US drug companies brought in about $3.4 billion for dry eyes and glaucoma drops alone.
3. -It's for my glaucoma.
4. Glaucoma has two main types, acute angle closure and primary open angle.
5. Open-angle glaucoma, or chronic glaucoma, is caused by a partial blockage of the drainage canal.
polio
/ˈpoʊɫiˌoʊ/
nouna disabling and life-threatening disease that causes nerve injuries leading to permanent paralysis, happens mostly in children younger than 5
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1. Millions of volunteers immunized children around the world against polio.
2. Polio is the greatest vaccine of all time.
3. So is polio.
4. Polio is relatively infectious.
5. Polio strikes the poorest communities in the world.
rabies
/ˈɹeɪbiz/
nouna viral disease of mammals, particularly dogs that is usually passed to humans through the bite of an infected animal
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1. Examples of this include Hepatitis A, flu, Polio, and Rabies.
2. What we watched was the footage that was leaked out by Thomas before he died from his Rabies infection.
sleeping sickness
/slˈiːpɪŋ sˈɪknəs/
nounan encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness
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thrush
/ˈθɹəʃ/
nouncandidiasis of the oral cavity; seen mostly in infants or debilitated adults
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1. It was like thrush.
2. The thrush has a lovely song.
3. The men became robins, thrushes and woodpeckers.
4. And this is a thrush.
5. This is known as oral thrush.
cancer
/ˈkænsɝ/
nouna serious disease caused by the uncontrolled growth of cells in a part of the body that may spread to other parts
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1. Cancer is killing cancer.
2. By contrast, Cancers create a terrible match for Aquarians.
3. Cancers also want a deep connection with their significant other.
4. Cancer sucks.
5. My grandma battled cancer for 13 years.
Alzheimer's disease
/ˈɑːltshaɪmɚz dɪzˈiːz/
nouna progressive neurologic disorder, particularly affecting older people, that slowly destroys brain cells and causes thinking ability and memory to deteriorate over time
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lou gehrig's disease
/lˈuː dʒˈeɪɹɪɡz dɪzˈiːz/
nouna progressive neurodegenerative disease that mainly affects motor neurons of the spinal cord which causes weakness in muscles and eventually causes paralysis and early death
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pellagra
/pəˈɫæɡɹə/
nouna disease caused by severe vitamin B3 or niacin deficiency and characterized by skin changes, mental symptoms, and diarrhea
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1. Stories of vampires originated from misinterpretations of diseases, such as rabies, and pellagra, and decomposition.
2. And then what that does is it chemically breaks open the niacin, and then you can get to it, and you don't get a terrible disease called pellagra.
3. And there were epidemics of pellagra that went on for centuries until--
4. It's similar to the pellagra epidemic in Mississippi in the '30s.
mad cow disease
/mˈæd kˈaʊ dɪzˈiːz/
nouna fatal neurological disease that affects cattle and can occasionally be transmitted to humans as well
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1. Chronic wasting disease is like mad cow disease.
2. Mad cow disease comes from feeding cows to other cows.
3. Oprah Winfrey hosted a show on mad cow disease.
4. Mad cow disease is an illness that is caused by a prion and believed to be associated with beef that are feed other cattle parts in their cattle meal.
5. And now you have mad cow disease.
CJD
/sˌiːdʒˌeɪdˈiː/
nouna rare and potentially fatal disease that primarily affects the brain and causes brain damage that aggravates over time
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1. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or CJD, is a degenerative brain disease similar to Alzheimer's.
2. CJD is one of less than 10 diseases affecting humans that we term transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or TSE.
3. The brain on the left is from a normal patient and the brain on the right has CJD.
4. But CJD isn't caused by falling into a vat of chemicals or being Jared Leto.
5. A prion disease like CJD, like Kuru, or a mutated form of Joker prion, could produce Joker-like symptoms.
beriberi
/bˌɛɹɪbˈɛɹi/
nounavitaminosis caused by lack of thiamine (vitamin B1)
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1. For example, the disease beriberi, which is caused by a lack of thiamine, was first described by Western physicians in the mid-1600s.
2. From the people who were suffering from this Beriberi disease, which caused by lack of thiamine, they found that it was cured by eating soba noodles, 'cause buckwheat has a lot of thiamine.
3. You eventually get a horrible disease called beriberi.
4. I also don't have, for the record, no Beriberi, no scurvy, no Legionnaires' disease.
motor neurone disease
/mˈoʊɾɚ nˈʊɹɹoʊn dɪzˈiːz/
nouna progressive neurological disorder that causes the degeneration of the motor system and ultimately kills the patient
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1. About three years ago, there were some issues with my movement, and I went, ultimately, to the neurologist, and then he diagnosed me with motor neurone disease.
2. It's designed for people with motor and speech limitations, specifically people Motor neurone disease or ALS.
3. I had an aunt who died about four and bit years ago from motor neurone disease, and I sort of took two things away from the whole experience.
4. The tragic nature of things like ALS and Motor neurone disease is in their extreme cases, you are locked in your bodies.
5. Hawking, best known for his book A Brief History of Time, truly changed the world of physics, despite his diagnosis at the age of 22 with motor neurone disease.
parkinson's disease
/pˈɑːɹkɪnsənz dɪzˈiːz/
nouna degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by tremor and impaired muscular coordination
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radiation sickness
/ɹˌeɪdɪˈeɪʃən sˈɪknəs/
nounsyndrome resulting from exposure to ionizing radiation (e.g., exposure to radioactive chemicals or to nuclear explosions); low doses cause diarrhea and nausea and vomiting and sometimes loss of hair; greater exposure can cause sterility and cataracts and some forms of cancer and other diseases; severe exposure can cause death within hours
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rheumatic fever
/ɹuːmˈæɾɪk fˈiːvɚ/
nouna severe disease chiefly of children and characterized by painful inflammation of the joints and frequently damage to the heart valves
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1. Pierpont was incapacitated by a devastating bout with Rheumatic Fever.
2. Just as an untreated cold or flu might evolve into a more serious case of pneumonia, Rheumatic Fever is the occasional escalation of an untreated throat infection.
3. According to the Encyclopedia of Infectious Diseases, Rheumatic Fever only afflicts about three percent of streptococcal infections, but it is more common in young children between the ages of 5 to 14.
silicosis
/sˌɪlɪkˈoʊsɪs/
nouna lung disease caused by inhaling particles of silica or quartz or slate
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1. No one needs to bother with this monstrosity because we've already agreed upon a much easier word for the same disease: silicosis.
aneurysm
/ˈænjʊˌɹɪzəm/, /ˈænjʊˌɹɪzm/
nouna cardiovascular disease characterized by a saclike widening of an artery resulting from weakening of the artery wall
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1. I clipped the aneurysm.
2. - Aneurysms, what's the deal with that?
3. - She had two aneurysms.
4. Dissecting aortic aneurysm.
5. The aneurysm can rupture.
angina
/ænˈdʒaɪnə/
nounany disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain
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1. Perhaps your angina kicks in, or something like that.
2. Microvascular angina is much more common in women than in men.
3. In contrast, vasospastic angina shows ST-segment elevation due to transmural ischemia.
4. In addition, vasospastic angina also responds to calcium channel blockers.
5. Angina is chest pain from a lack of circulation to the heart.
asthma
/ˈæzmə/
nouna disease that causes shortness of breath and difficulty in breathing
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1. Mount Sinai's Asthma app actually discovered asthma triggers from all 50 states.
2. Mount Sinai's Asthma app actually discovered asthma triggers from all 50 states.
3. Her children have asthma.
4. She has asthma.
5. One out of four South Bronx children has asthma.
fibromyalgia
/fˌɪbɹəmɪˈældʒə/
nouna chronic disorder characterized by widespread pain, tenderness, and other symptoms like fatigue, sleep disturbances, and mood changes
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1. The first group, the first arm got education for fibromyalgia as a control group.
2. But fibromyalgia is not an autoimmune disease.
3. She has fibromyalgia.
4. He doesn't have fibromyalgia.
5. I have fibromyalgia
hepatitis
/ˌhɛpəˈtaɪtəs/
nouninflammatory condition of the liver caused by a variety of infectious viruses or over-consumption of alcohol
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1. Yeah, give me hepatitis!
2. Micheal: You probably have hepatitis.
3. Alcohol is another-- hepatitis.
4. Alcoholic hepatitis is liver inflammation.
5. These include infections in the bladder and prostate, as well as hepatitis.
heart disease
/hˈɑːɹt dɪzˈiːz/
nouna disease of the heart
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1. So, just to illustrate-- this is a textbook called Heart Disease.
2. Here are some of the factors that can up your risk of Heart Disease as a woman.
3. Reduced Risk Of Heart Disease:
4. Blood Pressure and Heart Disease Your kitchen often serves as a treasure chest of healthy herbs and spices.
5. Heart Disease This is pretty much the giant whale of health problems daily fast food can cause.