Definition of Disease

1. Noun. An impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning.


Definition of Disease

1. n. Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.

2. v. t. To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress.

Definition of Disease

1. Noun. (pathology) An abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired. ¹

2. Noun. (by extension) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc. ¹

3. Verb. (obsolete) To cause unease; to annoy, irritate. ¹

4. Verb. To infect with a disease. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Disease

1. to make unhealthy [v -EASED, -EASING, -EASES] - See also: unhealthy

Medical Definition of Disease

1. 1. Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet. "So all that night they passed in great disease." (Spenser) "To shield thee from diseases of the world." (Shak) 2. An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder; applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc. "Diseases desperate grown, By desperate appliances are relieved." (Shak) "The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public counsels have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished." (Madison) Disease germ. See Germ. Synonym: Distemper, ailing, ailment, malady, disorder, sickness, illness, complaint, indisposition, affection. Disease, Disorder, Distemper, Malady, Affection. Disease is the leading medical term. Disorder mean much the same, with perhaps some slight reference to an irregularity of the system. Distemper is now used by physicians only of the diseases of animals. Malady is not a medical term, and is less used than formerly in literature. Affection has special reference to the part, organ, or function disturbed, as, his disease is an affection of the lungs. A disease is usually deep-seated and permanent, or at least prolonged, a disorder is often slight, partial, and temporary, malady has less of a technical sense than the other terms, and refers more especially to the suffering endured. In a figurative sense we speak of a disease mind, of disordered faculties, and of mental maladies. Origin: OE. Disese, OF. Desaise; des- (L. Dis-) + aise ease. See Ease. 1. To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress. "His double burden did him sore disease." (Spenser) 2. To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; used almost exclusively in the participle diseased. "He was diseased in body and mind." (Macaulay) Origin: Diseased; Diseasing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disease

disdainous
disdainously
disdains
disdeified
disdeifies
disdeify
disdeifying
disdeign
disdeigned
disdeigning
disdeigns
disdiaclast
disdiaclasts
disdiapason
disdiapasons
disease (current term)
disease-free survival
disease-ridden
disease determinants
disease management
disease modifying drug
disease notification
disease of the neuromuscular junction
disease of the skin
disease outbreaks
disease progression
disease reservoirs
disease susceptibility
disease transmission
disease vectors

Literary usage of Disease

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Cases of Addison's disease without pigmentation are very apt to be overlooked. On the other hand, there are many diseases that have nothing to do with ..."

2. The Lancet (1898)
"30 et seq., where oa»ei of scleroderma »bowing alliance to Raynaud's disease are recorded. This case would perhaps be sufficiently described as an irregular ..."

3. Annual Report (1921)
"II FIELD STUDIES OF HOOKWORM disease Drs. Darling and Smillie have conducted in Brazil a number of investigations in which they have sought to throw light ..."

4. Introduction to Infectious and Parasitic Diseases: Including Their Cause and by Millard Langfeld (1907)
"CHAPTER I. CAUSES OF disease. Since disease is a deviation from that state of ... disease, on the other hand, is characterized disease, by a rupture in the ..."

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