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Topic: ILLNESS AND DISABILITY

Date: 1900-2000
Origin: Old Lyme, town in Connecticut, USA, where the disease was first recognized

Lyme disease

 noun
     
Lyme dis‧ease [uncountable]
MI a serious illness that is caused by a bite from a tick1 (2)
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