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disease enhancement

disease enhancement noun: a side-effect of a therapeutic treatment, whereby the putative therapeutic agent, instead of alleviating the disease, enhances the pathology. Such as an antibody introduced or incited by the treatment binds to the disease agent, causing it to function better; such as antibodies binding to virus spike proteins and increasing its ability to infect cells.

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Noun

disease enhancement (usually uncountable, plural disease enhancements)

  1. (usually) A side-effect of a therapeutic treatment, whereby the putative therapeutic agent, instead of alleviating the disease, enhances the pathology. Such as an antibody introduced or incited by the treatment binds to the disease agent, causing it to function better; such as antibodies binding to virus spike proteins and increasing its ability to infect cells.

Forms of disease enhancement

pluraldisease enhancements

Questions about disease enhancement

What does disease enhancement mean?
Disease enhancement means a side-effect of a therapeutic treatment, whereby the putative therapeutic agent, instead of alleviating the disease, enhances the pathology. Such as an antibody introduced or incited by the treatment binds to the disease agent, causing it to function better; such as antibodies binding to virus spike proteins and increasing its ability to infect cells.
What part of speech is disease enhancement?
Disease enhancement is a noun.
What is the plural of disease enhancement?
The plural of disease enhancement is disease enhancements.

Words near disease enhancement in the dictionary

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  10. Disease X
  11. disease-free

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