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Inflammatory and Musculoskeletal Disease

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Inflammatory and Musculoskeletal Disease at University of Oxford

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Disease
A disease is any condition which results in the disorder of a structure or function in a living organism that is not due to any external injury. The study of disease is called pathology, which includes the study of cause. Disease is often construed as a medical condition associated with specific symptoms and signs. It may be caused by external factors such as pathogens or by internal dysfunctions, particularly of the immune system, such as an immunodeficiency, or by a hypersensitivity, including allergies and autoimmunity.
Disease
Aëre non certo corpora languor habet.
Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.
Disease
That dire disease, whose ruthless power
Withers the beauty's transient flower.
Oliver Goldsmith, Double Transformation, line 75.
Disease
Diseases desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are reliev'd,
Or not at all.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act IV, scene 3, line 9.
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