What's the difference between disease and epidemy?
Disease
Definition:
(n.) Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
(n.) An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder; -- applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc.
(v. t.) To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress.
(v. t.) To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; -- used almost exclusively in the participle diseased.
Example Sentences:
(1) Forty-nine patients (with 83 eyes showing signs of the disease) were followed up for between six months and 12 years.
(2) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
(3) A 2.5-month-old child with cyanotic heart disease who required long-term PGE1 infusions; developed widespread periosteal reactions during the course of therapy.
(4) Disease stabilisation was associated with prolonged periods of comparatively high plasma levels of drug, which appeared to be determined primarily by reduced drug clearance.
(5) Among the pathological or abnormal ECGs (25.6%) prevailed the vegetative-functional heart diseases with 92%.
(6) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
(7) These results suggest the presence of a new antigen-antibody system for another human type C retrovirus related antigens(s) and a participation of retrovirus in autoimmune diseases.
(8) We considered the days of the disease and the persistence of symptoms since the admission as peculiar parameters between the two groups.
(9) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
(10) Coronary arteritis has to be considered as a possible etiology of ischemic symptoms also in subjects who appear affected by typical atherosclerotic ischemic heart disease.
(11) Of 19 patients with coronary artery disease and "normal" omnicardiograms, only 8 (42%) had normal ventricular angiography.
(12) A disease in an IgD (lambda) plasmocytoma is described, where after therapy with Alkeran and prednisone a disappearance of all clinical and laboratory findings indicating an activity could be observed.
(13) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
(14) Acquired drug resistance to INH, RMP, and EMB can be demonstrated in M. kansasii, and SMX in combination with other agents chosen on the basis of MIC determinations are effective in the treatment of disease caused by RMP-resistant M. kansasii.
(15) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
(16) Diseases of the gastric musculature, including the inflammatory and endocrine myopathies, muscular dystrophies, and infiltrative disorders, can result in significant gastroparesis.
(17) In patients with coronary artery disease, electrocardiographic signs of left atrial enlargement (LAE-negative P wave deflection greater than or equal to 1 mm2 in lead V1) are associated with increased left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP).
(18) Road traffic accidents (RTAs) comprised 40% and ischaemic heart disease (IHD) 13% of the total.
(19) We measured soluble CD8 (sCD8) levels in the CSF of patients with MS, other inflammatory neurologic diseases (INDs), and noninflammatory neurologic diseases (NINDs).
(20) Measurement of urinary GGT levels represents a means by which proximal tubular disease in equidae could be diagnosed in its developmental stages.
Epidemy
Definition:
(n.) An epidemic disease.
Example Sentences:
(1) The scabies epidemy being observed since 1965, had developed from persistent endemic centres and pursues continuous the cyclic course of the scabies humanis in periods of 15 to 20 years.
(2) The hydrological origin of epidemy was not probable.
(3) A recent trichinosis epidemy involved around hundred patients in southern Paris suburbs; most frequent and marked clinical features were: facial and palpebral oedema, fever, bowel troubles (mostly constipation; diarrhea was seldom) and muscular tenderness.
(4) In all, the study of maternal antecedents and the circumstances of their outcome as small epidemy suggest a raisonable evidence that postnatal contamination within the early twenty-four hours of life happened.
(5) Small epidemies occur enlarged in institutions for newborns and toddlers.
(6) In psoriatic epidemis and epidermal tumors KL3 reactivity was drastically modified.
(7) An epidemy of fatal posterior weakness was observed in Norwegian dairy goats with a spontaneous character (high fever, collapse, death).
(8) During 1971-1973 anterior to choleric epidemy of 1973, alot of 2680 mussel's specimens were examined with the ACIS 1949 method, of which 60% (1611) favorable and 39.9% (1069) contrary; a single semple presented a S. paratyphi B germ.
(9) On the other hand, recent data indicate an alarming acceleration of the African epidemy, that spreads well beyond the risk groups which have been recognized in Western countries.
(10) In opinion of the WHO, AIDS and smoking are the two major epidemies, and smoking is the most important avoidable risk for health.
(11) Due to drug-efficiency, the coprological proof of the disease was generally missing in the old "epidemies" of the Maghreb.
(12) A bibliographic survey is made of the cases of fasciolasis in Maghreb, and it can be concluded that: The notion of "epidemy", or better, of simultaneous cases, brought to the diagnosis evocation, to explorations by I.D.R.
(13) There is no evidence, however, that African epidemy precedes that of the U.S., for which there is no explanation at present.
(14) During 1971 and 1972, years of grip epidemies, ARD and grip were responsible for 20--25 per cent of TIW and together with the days of TIW spent on attendance of children with ARD and grip--they were responsible for over one third of TIW for all diseases.
(15) The host reservoir of virus of this small epidemy is not dog but must be looked for in wild rodents, the multiplication of which seems related to the growing dispersed dumping of town refuse on wide suburban areas.
(16) A real epidemy of cutaneous cancer has appeared from 1954 in a french area specialized in the metal machining industry (valley of the Arve, Haute-Saoie).
(17) Nevertheless, the possible occurrence of sporadical epidemies and isolated cases of trichinosis has to be kept in mind.
(18) The strain classified as Enterobacter hafniae has been isolated in a severe epidemy of porcine diarrhoea.
(19) In this paper were presented results of isolation of vira from some organs of the dead newborn infants during the epidemy Coxsackie B virosis in Sarajevo in 1985.
(20) On these grounds, the parietal, basal and oreolar cells are considered to be proliferative cells, while the light and apical ones-to be their derivatives in the epidemis epithelium.