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Question
Write short (1-2 sentences) note on the following:
Disease
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Solution
Disease is a departure from normal health due to structural or functional disorder of the body. The disease may be due to deficiency of nutrients or malfunctioning of organs or genetic disorders, improper metabolic activity, or allergies, or cancer and mental illness as diabetes, haemophilia, leukemia, schizophrenia.
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