Thesaurus results for DISEASES

diseases

noun

plural of disease

as in illnesses

an abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning they caught a rare disease while they were traveling in Africa and were sick for weeks

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Recent Examples of diseases Blood tests and biopsies are typically used to study immune biomarkers for skin diseases like psoriasis and vitiligo. — Erica Sweeney, Time, 15 Oct. 2026 Vaccines have been so successful that many of today’s parents and many young pediatricians have never seen what these diseases can do. — CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2026 Kennedy was prepared to endorse Denmark’s vaccine schedule, which recommends vaccinations against 10 diseases for all children, as an option for American parents based on the memo. — David Lim, semafor.com, 15 Oct. 2026 Having lice doesn’t indicate poor hygiene, despite a longstanding misconception driven by stigma, and lice don’t spread other diseases. — Emily J. C. Wong, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2026 The resulting enzymes could be tuned to cut specific proteins in half, and the researchers demonstrated their effectiveness by using them to cut proteins associated with neurological diseases. — ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026 The precise location may also vary between tau forms and diseases. — Mike McRae 13, New Atlas, 14 Oct. 2026 DeVeydt added that costs for inpatient services and pharmacy, particularly costly specialty pharmacy drugs for cancer and rare diseases, remain elevated. — Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026 Some diseases have no visible signs or definitive diagnostic blood markers. — Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 13 Oct. 2026

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Medical schools employ people to portray patients with specific symptoms, emotional reactions and medical histories, giving students a chance to practice everything from diagnosing illnesses to delivering difficult news.

— Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 18 Oct. 2026
There were many individuals who appeared before me who had chronic illnesses.

— Annie Nova, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of illnesses

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But by the first week of September, the Dodgers could no longer argue that his poor performance wasn’t necessarily connected to his ailments.

— Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
Symptoms of lung cancer can include coughing, shortness of breath, overwhelming fatigue and pain in the back, chest or shoulder, which could be confused for other ailments.

— Estelamari Rodriguez, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of ailments

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And while children, the elderly and those with certain sicknesses or medications are most susceptible to heat illness – these temperatures affect everyone.

— Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 17 July 2026
At the end of the day, both doctors agree that hotel stays shouldn’t deter people from traveling altogether, since there are always ways to proactively minimize exposure and subsequent sicknesses.

— Joey Skladany, Travel + Leisure, 30 June 2026

Definition of sicknesses

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Now, in The Social Reckoning, Sorkin focuses on the ills of the company Facebook eventually became.

— Eliana Dockterman, Time, 7 Oct. 2026
The game’s maker, Paolo Pedercini, has long diagnosed the ills of modern capitalism through countercultural video games like Phone Story (2011), which depicted the exploitative supply chain of a smartphone.

— Lewis Gordon, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of ills

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Space Launch Delta 45’s weather squadron forecasts only a 55% chance for good conditions at the launch site as well as listing a moderate-to-high chance of bad conditions for the rocket booster recovery attempt downrange.

— Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2026
The protests, fueled in part by anger over rising living costs, school conditions and public services, erupted into violence Saturday.

— Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of conditions

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Also, all the volunteers in Stoliker’s study were healthy individuals, not patients suffering from psychological or psychiatric disorders that potential therapies using psychedelics could be aimed at.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 10 Oct. 2026
The study also found that greater night-to-night sleep irregularity and more wakefulness during the night were associated with higher risks of several conditions, including anxiety and substance use disorders.

— Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of disorders

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Medications like acetaminophen and ibuprofen can safely reduce body temperature, though acetaminophen is usually the better choice for fevers.

— Andee Tagle, NPR, 15 Oct. 2026
The high fevers brought on by listeria can cause miscarriages and stillbirths in pregnant women who are infected.

— David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of fevers

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