life-threatening disease
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflife-threateninganddisease
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life-threatening
adjective
uk/ˈlaɪfˌθret.ən.ɪŋ/us/ˈlaɪfˌθret.ən.ɪŋ/
A life-threatening disease is a very serious one that can ...
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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 oflife-threateninganddiseasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Persistent orlife-threateningdiseasemay require stronger immunosuppressive therapy, such as azathioprine, cyclophosphamide or cyclosporin.
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The second criterion was met by the fact that breast cancer is a manifest andlife-threateningdisease.
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She was told that it would have alife-threateningdisease.
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Cancer has become thelife-threateningdiseasewhich it is fashionable to discuss freely.
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Should this suggestion prove wrong, the potential benefits of the therapy aiming to cure or prevent alife-threateningdiseaseor condition would in fact outweigh the harms.
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The concept of time awareness in this context could also become increasingly important as an indicator of success in coping with mental distress caused by alife-threateningdisease.
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This usually results inlife-threateningdiseasesuch as septic shock and may lead to meningitis.
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Hepatocellular carcinoma is a severe andlife-threateningdiseasethat is associated with poor overall survival.
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She also has alife-threateningdiseasethat slowly drains her energy.
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Lymphoma is increasing in incidence and is a potentiallylife-threateningdisease.
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It may not be alife-threateningdisease, but many sufferers will say that it can destroy a woman's life, and her family life.
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They and their families bitterly resent having to pay for drugs for thislife-threateningdisease, without which they would soon deteriorate rapidly.
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I do not pretend that it is alife-threateningdisease; but this is one example of how services which were available to patients have now been cut.
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I pay tribute to him for doing so, because it was the correct decision to deal with a group of people who suffered from alife-threateningdisease.
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However, the people he conscripts to his aid, without consulting them, do not have alife-threateningdiseasewhich is exacerbated by poor diet and poor living conditions.
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Although choriocarcinoma is a highly malignant tumour and alife-threateningdisease, it is very sensitive to chemotherapy.
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Cancer patients also report a self-distancing mechanism, and take on a third-person perspective as a means of dealing with thelife-threateningdisease.
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While his parents overcame cancer, he began to focus on the concept of a young man saving a loved one from alife-threateningdisease.
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Some survivors, even if the cancer has been permanently cured, struggle emotionally from the trauma of having experienced alife-threateningdisease.
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This method of keeping airways open saved thousands of children from thelife-threateningdiseasediphtheria, an epidemic at the time.
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Yet others live in despair and depression, certain that they have alife-threateningdiseaseand no physician can help them.
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It is about parents who form a biotechnology company to develop a drug to save the lives of their children, who have alife-threateningdisease.
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This is a straightforward, central, humanitarian request to allow a human being, who is seriously ill with alife-threateningdisease, to be as close to his family as possible.
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The acute phase of the disease is alife-threateningdiseasecharacterized by massive invasion of bartonella to human red blood cells and consequently an acute hemolysis and fever.
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