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  2. Disease - Wikipedia

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    Also called silent disease, silent stage, or asymptomatic disease. This is a stage in some diseases before the symptoms are first noted. [23] Terminal phase If a person will die soon from a disease, regardless of whether that disease typically causes death, then the stage between the earlier disease process and active dying is the terminal phase.

  3. Oxford English Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The Pocket Oxford Dictionary of Current English was originally conceived by F. G. Fowler and H. W. Fowler to be compressed, compact, and concise. Its primary source is the Oxford English Dictionary, and it is nominally an abridgement of the Concise Oxford Dictionary. It was first published in 1924. [86]

  4. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - Wikipedia

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    It is the longest word in the English language published in a popular dictionary, Oxford Dictionaries, which defines it as "an artificial long word said to mean a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust". [3]

  5. Glossary of medicine - Wikipedia

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    Dermatitis – also known as eczema, is a group of diseases that result in inflammation of the skin. [149] These diseases are characterized by itchiness, red skin and a rash. [149] In cases of short duration, there may be small blisters, while in long-term cases the skin may become thickened. [149]

  6. What is ‘Disease X’ and why are experts worried? - AOL

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    A 2022 statement from the World Health Organization (WHO), defines the term this way: “Disease X is [used] to indicate an unknown pathogen that could cause a serious international epidemic.”

  7. Oxford Dictionary of English - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford Dictionary of English (ODE) is a single-volume English dictionary published by Oxford University Press, first published in 1998 as The New Oxford Dictionary of English (NODE). The word "new" was dropped from the title with the Second Edition in 2003. [ 1 ]

  8. Longest word in English - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford English Dictionary contains pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters). Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary does not contain antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters), as the editors found no widespread, sustained usage of the word in its original meaning. The longest word in that dictionary is electroencephalographically (27 ...

  9. Signs and symptoms - Wikipedia

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    Huntington's disease is a neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by a triad of motor, cognitive, and psychiatric signs and symptoms. [31] A large number of these groups that can be characteristic of a particular disease are known as a syndrome. Noonan syndrome for example, has a diagnostic set of unique facial and musculoskeletal ...