disease entity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdiseaseandentity
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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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entity
noun[C]
uk/ˈen.tɪ.ti/us/ˈen.t̬ə.t̬i/
something that exists apart from other things, having its own ...
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(Definition ofdiseaseandentityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In physical health problems there may be a desire to identify adiseaseentitythat can be diagnosed and separated from the sense of self.
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Its existence as adiseaseentityremains a matter of debate, and it is diagnosed only reluctantly in the elderly.
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Defining high cholesterol rather than heart disease as the condition to be treated transforms a risk factor into adiseaseentity.
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Once pathophysiological data are obtained, the definition of these symptoms as adiseaseentitymay ultimately be decided.
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It was based on the experience of a single centre with limited but reasonable sample size despite the rarity of thisdiseaseentity.
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In other words, the child's trauma is inflicted by caregivers or medical professionals, meaning it is not perceived as adiseaseentitythat is outside human control.
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The difficulty here is that muscular dystrophy is not a singlediseaseentitybut the name given to a group of diseases of unknown causes.
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This is not generally recognised as a separatediseaseentity, but rather as a concomitant of other disease conditions.
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In his earlier work, he described thediseaseentityas cancer family syndrome.
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Once the endoscopes are introduced into gland, the internal anatomy is explored either for diagnosis or for treatment of a specificdiseaseentity.
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When the human body is exposed to the solid pathogen, it falls ill, giving rise to the notion of adiseaseentity.
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Before the mid-1900s, lung cancer was considered to be a singlediseaseentity, with all forms treated similarly.
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Therefore, we did not wish to get in wrong with the medical profession by pronouncing alcoholism adiseaseentity.
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Since earliest times, the establishment of disease entities and causes responsible for illness have been part of all healing strategies.
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For example, thediseaseentityof a common cold might present with a pattern of wind-cold in one person, and with the pattern of wind-heat in another.
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We conclude that hypertrophic cardiomyopathy may represent a constellation of disease entities.
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Nosologies, as first conceived in the seventeenth century, were based on discrete disease entities clinically defined through essential and constantly observable symptoms and signs.
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The committee on health policy advises politicians to be more concerned about the conservation of health than combating specific disease entities through preventive measures.
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Technology constitutes the signs, markers, and endpoints that define disease entities, and it strongly influences both the explanatory models of disease and medical taxonomy.
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He traces the emergence of medical dissatisfaction with symptom-based classification, which mirrored the increasing commitment to theories of specific disease entities.
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