I was asked for some examples of diseases today by an elementary student at Wall Street English, and my mind went completely blank.
disease /dɪ'zi:z/ (noun); diseases, diseased, diseasing, (to) disease.
statements of meaning-
= an illness
= an incorrectly functioning organ, system, structure
= an abnormal condition affecting the body of an organism
= affects people, animals, plants (but also materials, such as tin, as in 'decomposition')
= resulting from genetic errors, infection, poisons, nutritional imbalance or deficiency, toxicity
negative check-
= virus (a kind of germ. causes disease. replicates itself. composed of NRA / DNA. ultrumicroscopic. in living things only. harms the host to which it's attached in order to, live, feed, benefit itself: is parasitic)
close synonyms-
= illness
= sickness
= infirmity
= ailment
antonym-
= health
examples-
AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome). Alzheimer's disease. Anemia. Anthrax. Appendicitis. Arthritis. Bronchitis. Bubonic plague. Cancer. Cerebral palsy. Chicken pox. Cholera. Chronic fatigue syndrome. Coronary heart disease. Congestive heart disease. Cow pox. Dengue. Diabetes. Encephalitis. Ebola. Emphysema. Genital herpes. Gonorrhea. Gangrene. Hepatitis A,B,C,D,E. Huntington's disease. Hypothermia. Influenza. Common cold. Jaundice. Lead poisoning. Lyme disease. Lymphoma. Malaria. Measles. Meningitis. Multiple sclerosis. Mumps. Muscular dystrophy. Osteoarthritis. Osteoporosis. Parkinson's disease. Whooping cough (Pertussis). Plague. Polio. Rabies. Repetitive strain injury. Rheumatoid arthritis. Rickets. Scarlet fever. Scurvy. SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome). Shingles. Small pox. Tetanus. Tuberculosis. Typhoid fever. Warts. Yellow fever. To name a few...
how to present-
Elementary class
S1: What means disease /'dɪzɪz/ ?
T: Pronunciation - /dɪ'zi:z/ - like see or read - [model stress] - can you say it?
S1: Disease /dɪ'zi:z/ .
T: Good - AIDS, cancer, Diabetes, Hepatitis are types of disease.
S1: Oh, yeah - thank you.
Intermediate class
S1: Sorry, what does disease mean?
T: Does anyone know that word - disease?
S2: Sick. Ill.
T: Yeah, okay, just ill? Or very ill?
S3: Very ill.
T: Usually for a short time or a long time?
S4: A long time.
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