What does disease mean?

Definitions for disease
dɪˈzizdis·ease

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. diseasenoun

    an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning

Wiktionary

  1. diseasenoun

    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.

  2. diseasenoun

    Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.

  3. diseaseverb

    To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.

  4. diseaseverb

    To infect with a disease.

  5. Etymology: disese, from desese, from desaise (). Displaced native adle (from adl), cothe (from coþu).

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. DISEASEnoun

    Distemper; malady; sickness; morbid state.

    Etymology: dis and ease.

    What’s the disease he means?
    ———— ’Tis call’d the evil. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

    It is idle to propose remedies before we are assured of the disease, or to be in pain ’till we are convinced of the danger. Jonathan Swift, Project for the Advancement of Religion.

    Then wasteful forth
    Walks the dire power of pestilent disease. James Thomson, Summer.

  2. To Diseaseverb

    Etymology: from the noun.

    We are all diseased,
    And with our surfeiting and wanton hours
    Have brought ourselves into a burning fever,
    And we must bleed for it. William Shakespeare, Henry IV. p. ii.

    Flatt’rers yet wear silk, drink wine, lie soft,
    Hug their diseas’d perfumes, and have forgot
    That ever Timon was. William Shakespeare, Timon.

    Let her alone, lady: as she is now, she will but disease our better mirth. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

    He was diseased in his feet. 1 Kings xv. 23.

    Though great light be insufferable to our eyes, yet the highest degree of darkness does not at all disease them. John Locke.

Wikipedia

  1. Disease

    Disease was released on September 30, 2002 as the first single from Matchbox Twentys third album, More Than You Think You Are. It was co-written by Matchbox Twenty lead singer Rob Thomas and The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger. The song peaked at #29 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Disease" was one of two songs written and presented to Mick Jagger, by Rob Thomas in which Jagger actually gives back the song, saying "it would sound better coming from you".

ChatGPT

  1. disease

    A disease refers to any abnormal condition or disorder that affects the structure or functioning of an organism, leading to the impairment of normal bodily functions. It is typically characterized by specific signs and symptoms, often caused by pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, or by non-infectious factors such as genetic abnormalities, nutritional deficiencies, or environmental factors. Diseases can vary in severity and may have short-term or long-term effects on the affected individual's health and well-being.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Diseasenoun

    lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet

  2. Diseasenoun

    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. Diseaseverb

    to deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress

  4. Diseaseverb

    to derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; -- used almost exclusively in the participle diseased

Wikidata

  1. Disease

    A disease is an abnormal condition that affects the body of an organism. It is often construed as a medical condition associated with specific symptoms and signs. It may be caused by factors originally from an external source, such as infectious disease, or it may be caused by internal dysfunctions, such as autoimmune diseases. In humans, "disease" is often used more broadly to refer to any condition that causes pain, dysfunction, distress, social problems, or death to the person afflicted, or similar problems for those in contact with the person. In this broader sense, it sometimes includes injuries, disabilities, disorders, syndromes, infections, isolated symptoms, deviant behaviors, and atypical variations of structure and function, while in other contexts and for other purposes these may be considered distinguishable categories. Diseases usually affect people not only physically, but also emotionally, as contracting and living with many diseases can alter one's perspective on life, and their personality. Death due to disease is called death by natural causes. There are four main types of disease: pathogenic disease, deficiency disease, hereditary disease, and physiological disease. Diseases can also be classified as communicable and non-communicable disease.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Disease

    diz-ēz′, n. a disorder or want of health in mind or body: ailment: cause of pain.—v.t. (Spens.) to make uneasy.—p.adj. Diseased′, affected with disease.—n. Diseas′edness.—adj. Disease′ful. [O. Fr. desaise, des—L. dis, neg., aise, ease.]

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  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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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'disease' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1112

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'disease' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2750

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'disease' in Nouns Frequency: #409

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of disease in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of disease in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of disease in a Sentence

  1. Bill Hanage:

    We've only ever really eradicated smallpox and if it weren't for a couple of further interventions beyond vaccines, even that could still have been with us, most people who know anything about infectious disease don't think total eradication is possible.

  2. Paul Northcott:

    Paul Northcott was the one of the first recipients of the AACR NextGen grant for transformative cancer research, a grant mechanism intended to support creative cancer research that may not be funded through conventional channels. Northcott’s research studies the molecular and genetic level of a type of childhood brain cancer called medulloblastoma, the most common malignant brain tumor in children, with five-year survival rates ranging from 30 to 80 percent. Through Paul Northcott research, Paul Northcott discovered molecular subgroups of medulloblastoma with distinct patient features, outcomes and mutational patterns. These findings changed the way the disease is studied, diagnosed and the way patients are treated, Paul Northcott said. There are no clinical compounds or FDA-approved drugs so I think the biggest challenge over the next several years is to take that information that we've gleaned from the genomics era and actually translate that into better treatment options for patients.

  3. Teena Henson:

    I looked at it as an answered prayer, if that hadn't happened, there's a possibility I could have died or have any of the conditions associated with being obese. There's a history of heart disease and diabetes in my family. I was headed in that direction, and I didn't want to go there.

  4. Giuseppe Lippi:

    Heavy alcohol consumption must always be avoided, not only for the risk of cardiovascular disease, but also because it causes acute injury to the liver and to the central nervous system, moreover, especially with binge drinking, the risk of car accidents increases by many folds.

  5. Eduardo Lara-Torre:

    In the past 10 years, we've really discovered more about the disease.

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