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disease enhancements

disease enhancements is the plural of disease enhancement.

Meaning of disease enhancement

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.

Questions about disease enhancements

What is disease enhancements the plural of?
Disease enhancements is the plural of disease enhancement.

Words near disease enhancements in the dictionary

  1. Dise
  2. disease
  3. disease boat
  4. disease boats
  5. disease enhancement
  6. disease enhancements
  7. disease mongering
  8. disease of despair
  9. Disease X
  10. disease-free
  11. disease-modifying

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