| 释义 |
disease noun—病 n (almost always used) ()疾病 n (almost always used) ()疾 n (almost always used) ()Examples:hand foot and mouth disease, HFMD, caused by a number of intestinal viruses, usually affecting young children—"urban dependence disease" (sufferers are unwilling give up city comforts and return to the countryside)—breaking out everywhere (of disease, social disorder etc)—Cytomegalovirus retinitis, a disease of the retina that can lead blindness—Minamata disease (mercury poisoning found in Southern Japan in 1956)—droplet infection (disease transmission from sneezing, coughing etc)—mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy)—Legionella (bacterium causing legionnaires' disease)—an infectious disease spreads quickly (old meaning)—an unmentionable illness (e.g. venereal disease)—human hand foot and mouth disease, a viral infection—snail fever (bilharzia or schistosomiasis), disease caused by schistosome parasitic flatworm—lit. the disease has attacked the vitals (idiom); fig. beyond cure—moyamoya disease (rare brain disease first diagnosed in Japan)—pneumoconiosis (occupational disease of coal miners)—Meniere's disease (loss of balance after stroke)—hemolytic disease of newborn (breakdown of red blood cells due alloimmune reaction between mother and fetus)—unhealthy influences that cause disease (Chinese medicine)—Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)— |