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Person > Healthy > Cause of disease

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2.5.5Cause of disease  

Definition

  • Use this domain for words referring to the cause of disease.

Broader concept

Scope note

  • What words refer to the cause of a disease? cause, source. What words refer to causing someone to be sick? make someone sick, spread sickness, infect, be infectious, be contagious, communicable. What things cause disease? infection, contagion, curse, spirit, psychosomatic, bacteria, virus, germ, chill, exposure, chemical imbalance, genetic defect. What words describe something that can make you sick? infectious, contagious, be bad for you, be bad for your health, unsanitary, unhygienic. What words refer to finding the cause of a disease? diagnose.

Notation

  • 2.5.5

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https://w3id.org/MoRe-SFB1475/CT/concepts/2987060263

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