debilitating disease

collocation in English

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debilitating
adjective
uk
/dɪˈbɪl.ɪ.teɪ.tɪŋ/us
/dɪˈbɪl.ə.teɪ.t̬ɪŋ/
making someone or something ...
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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 ofdebilitatinganddiseasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This will have a direct impact on the development of new treatments for this complex anddebilitatingdisease.
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The disease appears to be limited to adults and usually occurs as a complication to neoplasm of the lymphoid tissue or other chronicdebilitatingdisease.
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A vaccine for malaria could restore to health the roughly 5 per cent of the human population currently afflicted with thatdebilitatingdisease.
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It has for many years been a mostdebilitatingdiseasein many tropical countries.
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It is adebilitatingdiseasefrom which victims suffer all their life and die prematurely.
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There is no argument about multiple sclerosis being a deeplydebilitatingdisease.
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However, it is entirely right that existing treatments for thatdebilitatingdiseaseshould be evaluated constantly.
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It is the most appallinglydebilitatingdiseasefor the families and for the young men involved.
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Tuberculosis, he pointed out, was a 'chronic anddebilitatingdiseasewhich unfits the individual for the active exercise of his employment months or even years before death'.
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Infection with campylobacter may result in diseases that range from mild, self-limiting gastroenteritis with limited duration to life-long sequelae of serious,debilitatingdiseaseand premature mortality.
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She, however, is slowly dying from adebilitatingdisease.
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In comparison, it was a very minordebilitatingdisease.
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For that reason, will he look again at the possibility of speeding up the elimination of thisdebilitatingdisease?
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When will my constituent be able to get the drug to help her husband to overcome hisdebilitatingdisease?
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I suggested that it was the mostdebilitatingdiseasein the nation and was delaying our recovery.
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Consumption is adebilitatingdiseaseand those suffering from it require very nourishing food and skilful treatment.
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This is an indiscriminate anddebilitatingdiseasethat can affect anyone in my family and yours at any time!
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Austrian chose to focus on prevention rather than antibiotic treatment of thisdebilitatingdisease.
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He suffers from adebilitatingdiseasein where he needs an in-home nurse.
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This helped him recover from thedebilitatingdiseaseby the time he was sixteen.
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It can take 10 or 20 years to manifest itself, and it is adebilitatingdiseasefor which there is no cure.
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Over the past five years, compelling evidence has built up of the link between organophosphate toxins and thedebilitatingdiseasethat they cause.
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There is the existence of endemicdebilitatingdiseasewhich renders unfit for service considerable numbers of those who would normally be available for service.
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It is important to stress that the number of deaths from this verydebilitatingdisease, which can be fatal for many people, has fallen.
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Let that be a reminder that we want some action to support the many families, and children in particular, who suffer from thatdebilitatingdisease.
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