疾病 disease; illness; sickness; pathema 战胜疾病 triumph over disease; 摆脱疾病 throw off one's illness; 他得了一种痛苦的疾病。 he is seized with a painful sickness. 孩子易患各种疾病。 children are susceptible to various illness. 她的身体被疾病拖垮了。 she was pulled down by her illness
If a drug could be made that inhibits this fragmentation process , it could substantially slow the spread of prions , which cause mad cow disease and scrapie in animals and , in rare cases , creutzfeldt - jacob disease and kuru in humans 药物可阻滞这些蛋白裂解片段过程,从而持久的减慢朊病毒传播,包括疯牛病和绵羊疯痒病和一些人类罕见疾病克-雅二氏病和库鲁病等疾病的传播。
Although rare diseases collectively affect 25 million americans ? a huge constituency in aggregate ? they are an unattractive market because they are subdivided into more than 6 , 000 subpopulations ranging in size from a handful of patients to a couple hundred thousand 所有罹患罕见疾病的美国人加在一起,虽然也有2500万之谱(总数相当庞大) ,却不是个吸引人的市场,因为还要将他们区分成6000个以上不同的族群,每个族群大小不一,从一小撮人到几十万人不等。