They include liver disease (relatively common) and so-called mitochondrial diseases (affecting the body's ability to use energy from food breakdown).

CJD is one of a group of so-called prion diseases.

The syndrome is a so-called "orphan disease," too rare to compete for research funding against more common diseases.

How many millions of innocent people will die because of this so-called rare disease of mine?

Celebrities, he said, often want to raise money for so-called orphan diseases.

The so-called autoimmune diseases in which no organism can be identified by routine testing techniques are particularly suspect.

The same is true of the other so-called nucleotide-repeat diseases, although the stutter is found in different genes.

The last one looked into so-called "mad cow" disease and extracted proposals from the 15-nation bloc about tighter food safety.

The tide of petrodollars causes the so-called Dutch disease that inevitably drives up the value of the currency.

This may be relevant in particular to sufferers of so-called long-tail diseases, such as mesothelioma.