'Disease' definitions:
Definition of 'disease'
From: WordNet
noun
An impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning
Definition of 'Disease'
From: GCIDE
- Disease \Dis*ease"\, n. [OE. disese, OF. desaise; des- (L. dis-) + aise ease. See Ease.]
- 1. Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- So all that night they passed in great disease. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- To shield thee from diseases of the world. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Diseases desperate grown, By desperate appliances are relieved. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Disease germ. See under Germ.
- Syn: 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Disease'
From: GCIDE
- Disease \Dis*ease"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Diseased; p. pr. & vb. n. Diseasing.]
- 1. To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- His double burden did him sore disease. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; -- used almost exclusively in the participle diseased. [1913 Webster]
- He was diseased in body and mind. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'disease'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affection,
- affliction,
- ailment,
- bane,
- blight,
- bug,
- bugbear,
- burden,
- calamity,
- cancer,
- complaint,
- condition,
- contagion,
- contaminate,
- crushing burden,
- curse,
- death,
- debility,
- decrepitude,
- destruction,
- disability,
- disorder,
- epizootic,
- evil,
- feebleness,
- grievance,
- harm,
- ill,
- illness,
- infect,
- infection,
- infirmity,
- infliction,
- malady,
- malaise,
- misery,
- murrain,
- nemesis,
- open wound,
- pest,
- pestilence,
- plague,
- running sore,
- scourge,
- sickliness,
- sickness,
- syndrome,
- taint,
- thorn,
- torment,
- unhealthiness,
- vexation,
- virus,
- visitation,
- woe
Words containing 'Disease'
- Diseased,
- Diseaseful,
- Diseasefulness,
- Diseasement,
- Diseasing,
- Basedow's disease,
- Bright's disease,
- Caisson disease,
- Chagas' disease,
- Chronic disease,
- Contagious disease,
- Disease germ,
- Essential disease,
- Filth disease,
- Functional disease,
- Graves' disease,
- Hodgkin's disease,
- Infectious disease,
- Insidious disease,
- Ischiadic disease,
- Jumping disease,
- Loco disease,
- Navicular disease,
- Parkinson's disease,
- Phosphorus disease,
- Porcupine disease,
- Pott's disease,
- Skinbound disease,
- Specific disease,
- Sporadic disease,
- Thomsen's disease,
- Weil's disease,
- Zymotic disease,
- addison's disease,
- albright's disease,
- alzheimer's disease,
- animal disease,
- autoimmune disease,
- bang's disease,
- banti's disease,
- black disease,
- bleeder's disease,
- blood disease,
- bornholm disease,
- bosin's disease,
- brain disease,
- cardiovascular disease,
- celiac disease,
- christmas disease,
- communicable disease,
- congenital disease,
- crohn's disease,
- cupid's disease,
- cushing's disease,
- darier's disease,
- deficiency disease,
- disease of the skin,
- diseased person,
- endemic disease,
- epidemic disease,
- eye disease,
- gaucher's disease,
- genetic disease,
- gland disease,
- glandular disease,
- hansen's disease,
- hashimoto's disease,
- heart disease,
- hereditary disease,
- hirschsprung's disease,
- hookworm disease,
- huntington's disease,
- hurler's disease,
- hydatid disease,
- idiopathic disease,
- industrial disease,
- inflammatory disease,
- inherited disease,
- kakke disease,
- kawasaki disease,
- kidney disease,
- kissing disease,
- lafora's disease,
- leaf disease,
- legionnaires' disease,
- liver disease,
- lyme disease,
- marburg disease,
- mcardle's disease,
- meniere's disease,
- mental disease,
- minamata disease,
- monilia disease,
- monogenic disease,
- neurological disease,
- newcastle disease,
- occupational disease,
- paget's disease,
- parrot disease,
- periodontal disease,
- pick's disease,
- pink disease,
- plant disease,
- polygenic disease,
- potato disease,
- pullorum disease,
- pulseless disease,
- ragpicker's disease,
- ragsorter's disease,
- reiter's disease,
- respiratory disease,
- rhizoctinia disease,
- rickettsial disease,
- riggs' disease,
- ring disease,
- sachs disease,
- sclerotium disease,
- serum disease,
- skin disease,
- social disease,
- steinert's disease,
- still's disease,
- surveillance of disease,
- tin disease,
- tsutsugamushi disease,
- venereal disease,
- wasting disease,
- werlhof's disease,
- wilson's disease,
- wilt disease,
- woolsorter's disease,
- zoonotic disease,
- Bronzed skin disease,
- Fermentation theory of disease,
- Foot and mouth disease,
- M'eniere's disease,
- Wool sorter's disease,
- autosomal dominant disease,
- autosomal recessive disease,
- black lung disease,
- cat scratch disease,
- chronic wasting disease,
- coronary artery disease,
- coronary heart disease,
- cystic breast disease,
- degenerative joint disease,
- disease of the neuromuscular junction,
- dutch elm disease,
- fibrocystic breast disease,
- fibrocystic disease of the breast,
- fibrocystic disease of the pancreas,
- green monkey disease,
- guinea worm disease,
- hyaline membrane disease,
- inflammatory bowel disease,
- lime disease spirochete,
- lou gehrig's disease,
- mad cow disease,
- malignant neoplastic disease,
- marble bones disease,
- pelvic inflammatory disease,
- pink disease fungus,
- polycystic kidney disease,
- rheumatic heart disease,
- sexually transmitted disease,
- valvular heart disease,
- von recklinghausen's disease,
- von willebrand's disease,
- Tay-Sachs Disease,
- albers-schonberg disease,
- center for disease control and prevention,
- chestnut-bark disease,
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,
- coronary-artery disease,
- creutzfeldt-jakob disease,
- foot-and-mouth disease,
- hoof-and-mouth disease,
- iron-storage disease,
- jakob-creutzfeldt disease,
- maple syrup urine disease,
- marie-strumpell disease,
- niemann-pick disease,
- schuller-christian disease,
- severe combined immunodeficiency disease,
- sickle-cell disease,
- spielmeyer-vogt disease,
- werdnig-hoffman disease,
- charcot-marie-tooth disease,
- hand-schuller-christian disease