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Definition of Disease
1. Noun. An impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning.
Specialized synonyms: Disease Of The Neuromuscular Junction, Aspergillosis, Anthrax, Blackwater, Cat Scratch Disease, Complication, Crud, Endemic, Endemic Disease, Enteropathy, Incompetence, Kawasaki Disease, Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome, Pycnosis, Pyknosis, Boutonneuse Fever, Indian Tick Fever, Kenya Fever, Marseilles Fever, Meniere's Disease, Milk Sickness, Mimesis, Industrial Disease, Occupational Disease, Onychosis, Rheumatism, Periarteritis Nodosa, Polyarteritis Nodosa, Periodontal Disease, Periodontitis, Liver Disease, Communicable Disease, Exanthema Subitum, Pseudorubella, Roseola Infantilis, Roseola Infantum, Respiratory Disease, Respiratory Disorder, Respiratory Illness, Congenital Disease, Genetic Abnormality, Genetic Defect, Genetic Disease, Genetic Disorder, Hereditary Condition, Hereditary Disease, Inherited Disease, Inherited Disorder, Inflammatory Disease, Autoimmune Disease, Autoimmune Disorder, Deficiency Disease, Cystic Breast Disease, Cystic Mastitis, Fibrocystic Breast Disease, Fibrocystic Disease Of The Breast, Goiter, Goitre, Struma, Thyromegaly, Pappataci Fever, Phlebotomus, Sandfly Fever, Disease Of The Skin, Skin Disease, Skin Disorder, Malignance, Malignancy, Eye Disease, Animal Disease, Plant Disease, Ozaena, Ozena, Filariasis
Terms within: Symptom, Sign, Syndrome
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
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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