onset of disease

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• Disease in colonial America — was a very dangerous unknown entity with very few remedies at the beginning of Colonial America. Throughout Colonial America many diseases came, some deadly and others treatable but all had in common, that they were the first diseases that were… …   Wikipedia

• onset — (n.) 1530s, attack, assault, from ON (Cf. on) + SET (Cf. set) (n.); Cf. to set (something) on (someone). Weaker sense of beginning, start first recorded 1560s. Figurative use in reference to a calamity, disease, etc. is from 1580s …   Etymology dictionary

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• disease — diseasedly, adv. diseasedness, n. /di zeez /, n., v., diseased, diseasing. n. 1. a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection,… …   Universalium

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• Disease, Tay-Sachs (TSD) — Deficiency of hexosaminidase A causes a disorder known as Tay Sachs disease (TSD) which is concisely defined by OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man) as “an autosomal recessive, progressive neurodegenerative disorder, which in the classic… …   Medical dictionary

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• onset */ — UK [ˈɒnˌset] / US [ˈɑnˌset] noun [singular] Word forms onset : singular onset plural onsets the beginning of something, especially something bad the onset of the disease …   English dictionary