a disfiguring disease

  • 1disease — Many kinds of disease are mentioned in the Bible but it is difficult to identify them by their modern names. The incidence of disease and the means of cure were highly important in biblical times, and its causes were sometimes ascribed to God as… …

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  • 2skin disease — ▪ pathology Introduction  any of the diseases or disorders that affect the human skin. They have a wide range of causes. General features       Although most diseases affecting the skin originate in the layers of the skin, such abnormalities are… …

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  • 3Mosquito-borne disease — Endemic range of yellow fever in Africa (2005) …

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  • 4Eradication of infectious diseases — Eradication is the reduction of an infectious disease s prevalence in the global host population to zero.[1] It is sometimes confused with elimination, which describes either the reduction of an infectious disease s prevalence in a regional… …

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  • 5Vaccine — For other uses, see Vaccine (disambiguation). A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease causing microorganism, and is often made from… …

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  • 6Sphaeropsis blight — is a disease that affects pines worldwide. This disease was previously known as Diplodia tip blight. Sphaeropsis blight is considered to be a disfiguring disease that attacks pine trees that are growing under stressful conditions. Sphaeropsis… …

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  • 7List of The X-Files characters — For Monster of the Week characters, see List of Monster of the Week characters in The X Files. The following is a list of all main and recurring characters (who have appeared three times or more, with a few exceptions) in the American science… …

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  • 8disfigure — dis|fig|ure [dısˈfıgə US ˈfıgjər] v [T] to spoil the appearance that something naturally has ▪ His face had been disfigured in an accident. >disfigured adj >disfigurement n [U and C] >disfiguring adj ▪ a disfiguring disease …

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  • 9Natalie Clifford Barney — Natalie Clifford Barney, painted in 1896 by her mother Alice Pike Barney. Born October 31, 1876(1876 10 31) Dayton, Ohio …

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  • 10German literature — Introduction       German literature comprises the written works of the German speaking peoples of central Europe. It has shared the fate of German politics and history: fragmentation and discontinuity. Germany did not become a modern nation… …

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