mysterious disease

collocation in English

meaningsofmysteriousanddisease

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mysterious
adjective
uk
/mɪˈstɪə.ri.əs/us
/mɪˈstɪr.i.əs/
strange, not known, or ...
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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 ofmysteriousanddiseasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In 1845, however, amysteriousdiseasehad infested the potato plants, destroying nearly half the crop.
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Are they carted out of hospital because they have contracted thatmysteriousdisease?
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There is no evidence of anymysteriousdisease.
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A general practitioner gave the opinion that the fact that this man had been immersed in the sea on at least two occasions would have contributed to thismysteriousdisease.
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But it is a verymysteriousdisease.
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The original tale is reinterpreted in terms of amysteriousdisease, knowledge of which the authorities are trying to suppress.
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At first as a result of a lack of information this incident was named themysteriousdisease.
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He also provided 1,000 a year for five years to fund research into the nature of thismysteriousdisease.
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The story is set about two years after the collapse of civilization due to amysteriousdiseasecalled "neuroderm".
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The final outbreak of themysteriousdiseaseknown as sweating sickness was raging and there were many victims in the court.
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She contracted amysteriousdiseasecalled that reverses the time-space continuum of the patient.
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It is unwise to dismiss the pathogenic capacities of any microbe in a patient with amysteriousdisease.
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When her temple was burnt down, all the animals in the area died from amysteriousdisease, so the villagers built a platform to send her offerings.
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He suffers from mysterious diseases, which cause him a great deal of pain and stiffness, which sometimes cause his body to become completely rigid and numb.
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