skin disease

collocation in English

meaningsofskinanddisease

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skin
noun
uk
/skɪn/us
/skɪn/
the natural outer layer that covers a person, animal, ...
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disease
noun
uk
/dɪˈziːz/us
/dɪˈziːz/
(an) illness of people, animals, plants, etc., caused by infection or a failure of health rather than by ...
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(Definition ofskinanddiseasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Clinical signs appear progressively and combine visceral andskindisease.
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While cancer is more commonly lethal thanskindisease, it is not always so.
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One of the most persistent allegations levelled at the evacuees had concerned the high incidence of head lice andskindisease.
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Protection of cattle against rinderpest and lumpyskindiseasewith a rcombinant expressing the fusion protein gene of rinderpest virus.
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For example, the scoring of the deficit 'cancer' and that of 'skindisease' each follow the same rules: 0 if absent and '1' if present.
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Transmission of lumpyskindiseasemosquitoes for periods of at least 6 days without an appreciable loss in titre and is then able to be transmitted.
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Atopic eczema is a very common inflammatoryskindiseasethat can have a profound effect on the quality of life for both sufferers and their families.
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They include people with muscular dystrophy, spina bifida, multiple sclerosis, kidney disease, continualskindiseaselike psoriasis, heart disease, chest disease—all sorts of disease.
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It is very difficult to draw the line between research onskindiseaseand skin conditions and that done purely for cosmetic purposes.
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An operative in such a factory may get askindiseasesuch as dermatitis.
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It is a significantskindiseasebecause it is transferable to man, so there is a case for making the vaccination of all cattle obligatory.
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It seems to me that it should have been possible by now to discover a dye which did not causeskindisease.
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If these products are used by the very young and by those with no previous history ofskindisease, they can be extremely dangerous.
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Imagine people working dough with thatskindiseaseupon them.
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The drug was prescribed for askindisease.
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We are specifying at the beginning such conditions as weepingskindisease, incontinence, abdominal stomas and renal failure which requires home dialysis.
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Skindiseasewill occur, but it is obviously not because of the barbers' shops, whether they are clean or domestically dirty.
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The initial findings confirm that occupational dermatitis is still the most widespread form of work relatedskindisease.
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