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orphan diseases

orphan diseases is the plural of orphan disease.

Meaning of orphan disease

Noun

orphan disease (plural orphan diseases)

  1. Any disease for which drugs are not usually developed because it is too rare to make the development profitable.

Questions about orphan diseases

What is orphan diseases the plural of?
Orphan diseases is the plural of orphan disease.

Words near orphan diseases in the dictionary

  1. orphan asylum
  2. orphan asylums
  3. orphan crushing machine
  4. orphan crushing machines
  5. orphan disease
  6. orphan diseases
  7. orphan drug
  8. orphan drugs
  9. orphan house
  10. orphan houses
  11. orphan initialism

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