Hodgkin's disease
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- noun
- /ˈhɒdʒkɪnz dɪˈziːz/
- Specialized
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enfermedad de Hodgkin
- Many survivors of Hodgkin's disease share their stories of resilience and recovery to inspire others.
- Hodgkin's disease, a cancer
- chemotherapy for Hodgkin's disease
- treat Hodgkin's disease
Examples
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After being diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease, she underwent extensive treatment to combat the cancer.
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Many cancers—to name but a few, early-stage cancer of the larynx, childhood leukemia, and Hodgkin's disease—are highly curable.
Academic text (2002) -
His mother was American and died of Hodgkin's disease two years ago.
Fiction book (1996) -
Two years later, the family received more bad news: her only son had Hodgkin's disease.
Blog text (5) -
Without therapy, Hodgkin's disease is almost always a death sentence.
Blog text (18) -
As mentioned in the news report, Daniel has Hodgkin's disease, which is a form of lymphoma.
Blog text (18) -
I have Hodgkin's disease.
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And neither would you if you'd almost died of Hodgkin's disease and had a year of radiation and chemotherapy.
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These malignancies are generally grouped into one of two major categories: Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Academic text (2006) -
Next, we look at bone marrow smears from a seventeen-year-old boy with Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of lymphoid tissue.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
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7.2
A cancer that starts in the body's lymph tissue and often makes lymph nodes swell
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8.0
Cancer cells that grow without control and can destroy nearby tissue
A harmful growth of body cells that can spread to other parts
Surface Forms
Morphology
Hodgkin's + disease
The headword 'disease' makes it obvious to a B1 learner that this refers to an illness, but 'Hodgkin's' is an eponymic proper name that does not convey the specific medical nature (a malignant lymphatic disorder). As a result learners will infer it is a type of disease but will not be able to derive the clinical meaning from the constituents alone, so the expression is only partly transparent.
Etymology
Hodgkin's disease is named after the British doctor Thomas Hodgkin, who in the 1800s first described patients with painless, swollen lymph nodes. That's why Hodgkin's disease today means the specific cancer that affects the lymph system.