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Inflammatory and Musculoskeletal Disease

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Inflammatory and Musculoskeletal Disease at University of Oxford

Language: English Studies in English
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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
Diseases desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are reliev'd,
Or not at all.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act IV, scene 3, line 9.
Disease
This apoplexy is, as I take it, a kind of lethargy, an't please your lordship; a kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson tingling.
William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II (c. 1597-99), Act I, scene 2, line 125.
Disease
Against diseases here the strongest fence,
Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.
Robert Herrick, Abstinence.
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