Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word disease-free.

Examples

  • These transplants, which involve destroying cancerous bone marrow and replacing it with disease-free stem cells, have been the standard of care for leukemia for decades.

    Doctors offer unapproved stem cell therapies 2011

  • These transplants, which involve destroying cancerous bone marrow and replacing it with disease-free stem cells, have been the standard of care for leukemia for decades.

    Doctors offer unapproved stem cell therapies 2011

  • A 2007 study found just 20 percent of patients who had received a liver or multivisceral transplantation to treat neuroendocrine tumors saw no additional metastases after five years, though the Mount Sinai study, which tracked 11 patients, found only one person remained disease-free five years after receiving a new liver.

    Will Steve Jobs Return? The Huffington Post 2011

  • It is not normatively neutral to aggregate the pleasure people derive from porn and weigh it against the "utility" that people derive from drinking clean disease-free water.

    Reduction to Banality, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • A 2007 study found just 20 percent of patients who had received a liver or multivisceral transplantation to treat neuroendocrine tumors saw no additional metastases after five years, though the Mount Sinai study, which tracked 11 patients, found only one person remained disease-free five years after receiving a new liver.

    Will Steve Jobs Return? The Huffington Post 2011

  • A drug, which has only been previously tested in animals, is given to a small number of healthy and disease-free people, mostly men, often unemployed, who then undergo painful, embarrassing and risky procedures? for money.

    The unacceptable face of medical research Ben Goldacre 2010

  • When the study ended in 2004, Ms. Cornwell, still disease-free, was taken off the insulin.

    Trying to Prevent Type 1 Diabetes Shirley S. Wang 2011

  • Corresponding five-year rates of disease-free survival were 90.4 percent and 92.2 percent, respectively.

    Lymph node test doesn't improve breast cancer care, study finds 2011

  • It may sound far-fetched, but it is possible to live a long, disease-free life.

    A Doctor in Your Pocket David B. Agus 2012

  • Why should we listen to the policy positions of any economist who aggregates the utility of watching porn, engaging in prostitution, drinking alcohol and weighs it against going to the gym, getting medical care to those who need it, preventing murder, and ensuring that people have access to disease-free drinking water??

    Reduction to Banality, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.