disease

Definition of disease in English English dictionary: Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc
War is not man's great and terrible disease; war is a symptom, a result. The real disease is the virus of national sovereignty.; To cause unease; to annoy, irritate
mote he soft himselfe appease, / And fairely fare on foot, how euer loth; / His double burden did him sore disease.; To infect with a disease; An abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired
The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and fruit withered.; {i} sickness, illness; An involuntary disability Alcoholism is a chronic disease consisting of genetic, psychosocial, and environmental elements; {v} to afflict, vex, torment, pain, infect; {n} a distempter, sickness, uneasiness, pain; any impairment of an organism's vital functions or systems, including interruption, cessation, proliferation, or other malfunction; Sickness; illness; an interruption, or disturbance of the bodily functions or organs, which causes or threatens pain and weakness; A general term used to refer to any departure from health in which a patient suffers It can be defined as disorder of bodily function or destructive processes in organs, organs' systems or in an organism with recognizable signs and symptoms, and in many cases a known cause The words disease, illness and sickness are used often interchangeably but are not synonymous Rather, whereas disease relates to a physiological or psychological dysfunction, an illness is the subjective state of a patient who feels unwell and sickness encompasses a state of social dysfunction, such as the role that the individual assumes when ill; A condition of an organ, part, structure, or system of the body in which there is incorrect function; "Lack of ease " Departure from the state of health or normality Disease is a process, not a thing and represents the response of the body to injury or insult; A disease is an illness which affects people, animals, or plants, for example one which is caused by bacteria or infection. the rapid spread of disease in the area. illnesses such as heart disease. brown lung disease Hansen disease degenerative joint disease Addison disease Alzheimer disease Lou Gehrig disease autoimmune disease Bright disease celiac disease Centers for Disease Control and Prevention congenital heart disease coronary heart disease ischemic heart disease Creutzfeldt Jakob disease caisson disease Dutch elm disease hemolytic disease of the newborn foot and mouth disease hoof and mouth disease gastroesophageal reflux disease glycogen storage disease Graves disease heart disease Hodgkin disease Korsakoff disease Legionnaire disease lipid storage disease Lyme disease mad cow disease Minamata disease occupational disease Paget disease of bone pelvic inflammatory disease pulmonary heart disease hyaline membrane disease sexually transmitted disease Tay Sachs disease Wilson disease; n 1 A pathological condition in an organism resulting from infection or genetic defect, for example, and characterized by identifiable symptoms 2 A condition or tendency, as of society, regarded as abnormal and harmful **; A process, not a thing, that represents the response of an organism to injury that affects its normal structure, functions or economic value and is expressed in characteristic pathological responses called symptoms; The term disease commonly refers to any deviation from the normal structure or function of the human body that is manifested by a characteristic set of one or more signs or symptoms The FDA is no longer proposing to broaden the definition of disease to include such conditions as pregnancy, menopause, and aging; A condition of abnormal vital function involving any structure, part, or system of the patient/client; Any malfunctioning of host cells and tissues that results from continuous irritation by a pathogenic agent or environmental factor and leads to development of symptoms; (Chiropractic Definition) the absence of health, a condition where the body has lost its ability to heal itself and is thereby susceptible to growth of organisms that are present in the body even in healthy situations; Any abnormality of bodily structure or function, other than those arising directly from injury; 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; Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet; "Lack of ease" Departure from the state of health or normality Disease is a process, not a thing and represents the responses of the body to injury or insult Although health and disease are concepts that do not easily lend themselves to simple definition, diseases have certain characteristics that are definable, for example; a state in which a function or part of the body is no longer in a healthy condition; May be defined as a failure of the adaptive mechanisms of an organism to counteract adequately, normally, or appropriately to stimuli and stresses to which it is subjected, resulting in a disturbance in the function or structure of some part of the organism This definition emphasizes that disease is multi factorial and may be prevented or treated by changing any or a combination of the factors Disease is a very elusive and difficult concept to define, being largely socially defined Thus, criminality and drug dependence are presently seen by some as diseases, when they were previously considered to be moral or legal problems; stress condition produced by the effects of a pathogen on a susceptible host; An involuntary disability Alcoholism is a chronic disease consisting of genetic, psychosocial and environmental elements; To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; used almost exclusively in the participle diseased; Any departure from health; a particular destructive process in an organ or organism with a specific cause and symptoms; A pathological condition of the body that presents a group of clinical signs, symptoms, and laboratory findings peculiar to it and setting the condition apart as an abnormal entity differing from other normal or pathological condition (CMD 1997); To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress; An abnormal condition of body structure and function, usually indicated by symptoms; Any impairment of the normal function of an organism; A general term describing a morbid condition which can be defined by objective, physical signs (e g hypertension), subjective symptoms or mental phobias, disorder of function (e g biochemical abnormality), or disorders of structure (anatomic or pathological change) Existence of disease may be questioned in disorder of structure without associated disorder of function; an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning; Any interruption of the normal function of any body organ, part, or system that appears abnormal; Organisms suffer from disease when their normal function is impaired by some genetic disorder, or more often from the activity of a parasite or other organism living within them Many diseases are caused by viruses, bacteria, or fungi; morbidity
disease carrier: something which carries and possibly transmits a disease (i.e. animal, insect, person)
disease of the neuromuscular junction: a disease characterized by impairment of neuromuscular junctions
dirt breeds disease: messiness and bad hygiene lead to poor health
Addison's disease: a disorder in which the adrenal glands fail to produce a sufficient quantity of steroids, causing a brownish discoloration of the skin
Nearly thirty years before the date of Addison's discovery, his eminent colleague, Dr. Bright, had observed and recorded, in his celebrated 'Reports of Medical Cases,' a case of Addison's disease.
Alzheimer's disease: A disorder involving loss of mental functions resulting from brain tissue changes; senile dementia of Alzheimer's type
Armenian disease: familial Mediterranean fever
Barlow's disease: The disease scurvy in infants
Bayoud disease: A disease of date palms, caused by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum
Behcet's disease: Alternative spelling of Behçet's disease
Behçet's disease: A multi-system disorder involving ulcerations on the mouth and sometimes the genitals, notorious for causing hypopyon uveitis (actually a rare symptom)
Bright's disease: Any of several diseases of the kidney characterized by inflammation, and the presence of albumin in the urine; nephritis
Brill-Zinsser disease: A delayed relapse of epidemic typhus, occurring some time after the original infection
Cheadle's disease: The disease scurvy, especially in infants
Christmas disease: haemophilia B
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: A rare, progressive, currently fatal disease of the nervous system, characterized by dementia and loss of muscle control. A prion disease, apparently transmissible from animals to humans by eating infected tissue, as well as from tissue interchanges among humans (corneal transplants, blood transfusions)
Crohn's disease: Crohn’s regional enteritis, a chronic inflammatory disease that can involve any part of the digestive tract from the mouth to the anus
Dutch elm disease: A disease of elm trees caused by an Ascomycete fungus and spread by bark beetles
Gaucher's disease: A genetic disease in which lipid accumulates in cells and certain organs
Graves' disease: Hyperthyroidism accompanied by protrusion of the eyeballs
Hansen's disease: The disease leprosy
Hirschsprung's disease: Congenital aganglionic megacolon, a disorder in which the bowel is obstructed by an aganglionic section of bowel and the colon becomes enlarged
Hodgkin's disease: The former name of Hodgkin's lymphoma
Huntington's disease: the former name of Huntington's chorea
Johne's disease: a chronic, contagious and often fatal disease of cattle, sheep and goats, caused by the intestinal bacterium Mycobacterium paratuberculosis, characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes of the gastrointestinal tract
Kashin-Beck disease: An osteoarticular disease that occurs mainly in China and causes pain and restriction of movement in the joints
Kashin-Bek disease: Alternative form of Kashin-Beck disease
Kawasaki disease: an illness of childhood that causes fever, lymphadenopathy, elevated platelet count, and a variety of other symptoms
Kienbock's disease: A painful disease of the wrist that results from loss of circulation to the lunate bone
Lou Gehrig's disease: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a form of motor neuron disease
Lyme disease: Infection by a bacterium of the genus Borrelia which is transmitted by ticks. Symptoms include a rash followed by fever, joint pain, and headaches
MEB disease: muscle-eye-brain disease
Marburg disease: A viral infection characterised by a high fever, encephalitis, diarrhea, vomiting, and severe bleeding from bodily orifices, and which is often fatal
Marie's disease: The disease hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy
Marie's disease: The disease acromegaly
McArdle's disease: Glycogen storage disease type V, a metabolic disorder caused by a deficiency of myophosphorylase
Minamata disease: A neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning
Moeller's disease: The disease scurvy, especially in infants
Ménière's disease: A disorder of the inner ear, caused by lymphatic channel dilation and characterized by episodes of dizziness and tinnitus and progressive hearing loss, usually in one ear
Möller-Barlow disease: The disease scurvy, especially in infants
Newcastle disease: A highly contagious disease of poultry
Paget's disease: The bone disease osteitis deformans
Parkinson's disease: A chronic neurological disorder resulting in lack of control over movement; poor balance and coordination; and similar symptoms
Peyronie's disease: A connective tissue disorder involving the growth of fibrous plaques in the soft tissue of the penis, causing abnormal curvature
Raynaud's disease: A disease characterized by low blood flow to the fingers, toes, and/or ears
Refsum's disease: A peroxisomal neurological disease that results in the malformation of myelin sheaths around nerve cells
Salla disease: An autosomal-recessive lysosomal storage disease characterized by early physical impairment and mental retardation
Wilson's disease: An autosomal-recessive genetic disorder in which copper accumulates in tissues, resulting in neurological or psychiatric symptoms and liver disease
Zuska's disease: A rare recurrent condition characterized by draining abscesses around the nipple
bronze disease: Addison's disease
caisson disease: The painful condition in which bubbles of nitrogen form in body tissues after a person makes too-rapid a transition from high atmospheric pressure to lower atmospheric pressure
calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate deposition disease: A medical condition, also called pseudogout or CPPD, which resembles gout but results from precipitation of crystals in the joints by a different compound
celiac disease: US spelling of coeliac disease
chronic granulomatous disease: Any of a group of hereditary defects in the ability of some phagocytes to kill certain bacteria; the resulting infection
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A group of diseases characterized by the pathological limitation of airflow in the airway that is not fully reversible. May be caused by reactive airways, chronic infection, congenital defects, or, most commonly, cigarette smoking. Generally does not include neoplasms, which could also obstruct airways
coeliac disease: An auto-immune disease characterised by sensitivity of the lining of the small intestine to gluten, causing a failure to digest food properly
coronary artery disease: Any disease caused by the accumulation of fatty deposits in the coronary arteries that supply blood to the myocardium
coronary heart disease: Any disease caused by the accumulation of fatty deposits in the coronary arteries that supply blood to the myocardium
diseased: Affected with or suffering from disease
fifth disease: The manifestation as rashes of a particular viral infection
food-borne disease: A disease which is contracted from eating contaminated food
foot-and-mouth disease: A highly contagious and sometimes fatal viral disease that can affect animals with cloven hooves
So Joe starts telling the citizen about the foot and mouth disease and the cattle traders and taking action in the matter and the citizen sending them all to the rightabout and Bloom coming out with his sheepdip for the scab and a hoose drench for coughing calves and the guaranteed remedy for timber tongue.
foot-in-mouth disease: A tendency to make remarks that are embarrassingly wrong or inappropriate
Maybe you suffer from foot-in-mouth disease, too, at least occasionally. If so, then I expect you've also learned about the remedy.
green monkey disease: A viral disease of humans and primates originating in green monkeys, caused by the Marburg virus
hemolytic disease: especially erythroblastosis fetalis
hemolytic disease: A hemolytic disease (one that destroys red blood cells releasing hemoglobin)
industrial disease: disease or disability caused by employment, such as repetitive acts or exposure to chemicals
kissing disease: Nickname for mononucleosis
It was in a college, West Point, that infectious mononucleosis won a romantic reputation. . . . Investigators at a girls' school also found post-vacation peaks, and mono became known as the kissing disease.
mad cow disease: bovine spongiform encephalopathy
motor neuron disease: Any of a group of progressive neurological disorders attacking motor neurons
muscle-eye-brain disease: A congenital muscular dystrophy associated with severe myopia or glaucoma and mental retardation or hydrocephalus
parrot disease: psittacosis
plant disease: A disease that affects plants
pulseless disease: Takayasu's arteritis
sexually transmitted disease: Any of various diseases that are usually contracted through sexual contact
sickle-cell disease: A disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells
tropical disease: any infectious disease which occurs only, or more often, in tropical or subtropical regions
venereal disease: Any of several contagious diseases, such as syphilis and gonorrhea, contracted through sexual intercourse
von Willebrand disease: An hereditary disease, characterized by a tendency to hemorrhage, and caused by a defect in blood platelet activity
von Willebrand's disease: An hereditary disease, characterized by a tendency to hemorrhage, and caused by a defect in blood platelet activity
wasting disease: Generic description of a medical condition that causes pronounced loss of body mass
He suffered from a horrible wasting disease and lost 100 pounds in only two weeks.
winter vomiting disease: The gastroenteritic illness caused by noroviruses
epidemic collapse, epidemic nausea and vomiting, winter vomiting disease, severe gastroenteritis in infants and children, and sporadic gastroenteritis.
Non-infectious disease: A non-communicable disease, or NCD, is a medical condition or disease, which by definition is non-infectious and non-transmissible among people
non-transmissible disease: A non-communicable disease, or NCD, is a medical condition or disease, which by definition is non-infectious and non-transmissible among people
diseased: {a} afflicted with a distemper, paind
Chronic Lung Disease of Infancy: Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD; formerly Chronic Lung Disease of Infancy) is a chronic lung disorder that is most common among children who were born prematurely, with low birthweights and who received prolonged mechanical ventilation to treat respiratory distress syndrome
Johne's disease: (Tıp, İlaç) Johne's disease (pronounced "yo-knees") is a contagious, chronic and usually fatal infection that affects primarily the small intestine of ruminants. A ruminant is any hooved animal that digests its food in two steps, first by eating the raw material then regurgitating and eating a semi-digested form known as cud. Ruminants include cattle, goats, sheep, camels, llamas, giraffes, bison, buffalo, deer, wildebeest, and antelope. All ruminants are susceptible to Johne's disease, which is sometimes called paratuberculosis. The disease is worldwide in distribution
bluetongue disease: (Hayvan Bilim, Zooloji) Bluetongue disease (also called catarrhal fever) is a non-contagious, insect-borne viral disease of ruminants, mainly sheep and less frequently of cattle, goats, buffalo, deer, dromedaries and antelope. There are no reports of human transmission. It is caused by the Bluetongue virus
communicable disease: (Tıp, İlaç) A communicable disease is a medical condition or disease which by definition is infectious and transmissable between persons
guinea worm disease: (Tıp, İlaç) A disease that is caused by infestation with the guinea worm and that has been eradicated in most regions except Africa ― called also dracunculiasis
rabbit calicivirus disease: (Tıp, İlaç) Rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD), also known as rabbit calicivirus disease (RCD), is an infectious disease that affects only rabbits. It targets the hepatocytes of infected rabbits, leading to disseminated intravascular coagulation. The incubation period is 24 to 48 hours and death occurs 6 to 24 hours from the start of fever. The disease is highly infectious, and is spread by the rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus
diseased: {s} sick, infected
diseased: Something that is diseased is affected by a disease. The arteries are diseased and a transplant is the only hope healthy
diseased: caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology; "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic tissue"; "pathological bodily processes"
diseased: Afflicted with disease
diseased: pathological
diseases: plural of disease
diseases: bacterial diseases fungal diseases protozoal diseases viral diseases

disease

Hyphenation

dis·ease

Turkish pronunciation

dîziz

Synonyms

illness, malady, rot, ache, affection, attack, blight, breakdown, bug, cancer, canker, collapse, complaint, condition, contagion

Antonyms

health

Pronunciation

/dəˈzēz/ /dɪˈziːz/

Etymology

() Middle English disese from Anglo-Norman desese, disaise from Old French desaise (dis- +‎ ease). Displaced native Middle English adle, audle "disease" (from Old English ādl "disease, sickness"), Middle English cothe, coathe "disease" (from Old English coþu "disease").