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1. (n.) disease
a disordered or abnormal condition of an organ or other part of an organism resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, nutritional deficiency, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness.
2. disease
any harmful condition, as of society.
Etymology: (1300–50; ME disese < AF dese(a)se, disaise)
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| Definition of 'Disease' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) disease
an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning
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1. (noun) disease
an illness
to have liver/heart disease; a disease of the blood; to suffer from a disease
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Disease
lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet
2. (noun) Disease
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
3. (verb) Disease
to deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress
4. (verb) Disease
to derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; -- used almost exclusively in the participle diseased
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U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. Disease
A definite pathologic process with a characteristic set of signs and symptoms. It may affect the whole body or any of its parts, and its etiology, pathology, and prognosis may be known or unknown.
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Sense: (an) illness
She's suffering from kidney disease; poverty and disease.
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 Afrikaans: siekte, kwaal |
 Arabic: مَرَض |
 Bulgarian: болеcт |
 Brazilian: doença |
 Czech: nemoc, choroba, nákaza |
 German: die Krankheit |
 Danish: sygdom; -sygdom |
 Greek: ασθένεια |
 Spanish: enfermedad, mal |
 Estonian: haigus |
 Farsi: بیماری؛ مرض |
 Finnish: sairaus |
 French: maladie |
 Hebrew: מַחֲלָה |
 Hindi: बीमारी |
 Croatian: bolest |
 Hungarian: betegség |
 Indonesian: penyakit |
 Icelandic: sjúkdómur |
 Italian: malattia |
 Japanese: 病気 |
 Korean: 질병 |
 Lithuanian: liga |
 Latvian: slimība |
 Malay: penyakit |
 Dutch: ziekte |
 Norwegian: sykdom,–syke, lidelse |
 Polish: choroba |
 Persian: بیماری؛ مرض |
 Pashto: ناروغى، جسمى يا فكرى نارو |
 Portuguese: doença |
 Romanian: boală |
 Russian: болезнь |
 Slovak: choroba |
 Slovenian: bolezen |
 Serbian: bolest |
 Swedish: sjukdom[ar] |
 Thai: โรคภัยไข้เจ็บ |
 Turkish: hastalık |
 Taiwanese: 疾病 |
 Ukrainian: хвороба, захворювання |
 Urdu: مرض |
 Vietnamese: bệnh |
 Chinese: 疾病 |
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