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health

Definitions

noun

  1. the general condition of body and mind
  2. a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease

Examples

The critics call its recipes bland, unhelpful, unoriginal and unhealthy.

It might as well be closed, because in many American hospitals you're simply shooed from the windowsill after you've been nursed back to health (usually in 72 hours or less), and you're expected to "fly" on your own.

I won't go into detail over the phone, but I've been having a few health problems recently.

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disease

Definitions

noun

  1. an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning

Examples

Leaving London they went to Paris, where they passed a few days, but soon grew weary of the place; and Lord Chetwynde, feeling a kind of languor, which seemed to him like a premonition of disease, he decided to go to Germany.

Several events of fulminating epidemic disease broke out since 1999, which often caused 100% mortality of abalone Haliotis drversicotor aquatilis farmed in Fujian and Guangdong coasts.

The Navajo made a tea of spotted coralroot used as a lotion for ringworm or skin disease.

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