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disease

/dɪˈziːz/

Translation

n [c, u]
enfermedad
Parkinson's disease
enfermedad de Parkinson
a rare disease
una enfermedad poco frecuente
Se usa disease, y no illness, cuando se especifica la enfermedad pron. sea rima con el sustantivo inglés tea
Véase tb: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; foot and mouth (disease); hoof and mouth (disease); mad cow disease
(Definition of disease n from the Diccionario Cambridge Compact English-Spanish © Cambridge University Press and Ediciones SM 2011)

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