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Definitions for Disease
[1] a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.
[2] any abnormal condition in a plant that interferes with its vital physiological processes, caused by pathogenic microorganisms, parasites, unfavorable environmental, genetic, or nutritional factors, etc.
[3] any harmful, depraved, or morbid condition, as of the mind or society: His fascination with executions is a disease.
[4] decomposition of a material under special circumstances: tin disease.
[5] to affect with disease; make ill.
[6] any impairment of normal physiological function affecting all or part of an organism, esp a specific pathological change caused by infection, stress, etc, producing characteristic symptoms; illness or sickness in general
[7] a corresponding condition in plants
[8] any situation or condition likened to this the disease of materialism
Words related to Disease
malady, stroke, illness, syndrome, cancer, sickness, defect, infection, virus, fever, plague, epidemic, contamination, disorder, bug, condition, inflammation, flu, seizure, hemorrhage
Words nearby Disease
discussant, discussion, discutient, disdain, disdainful, disease, disease determinant, diseased, diseconomy, disegno, disembargo
Origin of Disease
1300–50; Middle English disese < Anglo-French dese(a)se, disaise; see dis-1, ease
Other words from Disease
dis·eas·ed·ly , adverb
dis·eas·ed·ness , noun
Related adjective: pathological
Word origin for Disease
C14: from Old French desaise; see dis- 1 , ease
Synonyms for Disease
Cancer, bug, condition, contamination, defect, disorder, epidemic, fever, flu, illness, infection, inflammation, malady, plague, sickness, stroke, syndrome, virus, ache, affection, attack, blight, breakdown, canker, collapse, complaint, contagion, convulsions, debility, decrepitude, distemper, endemic, feebleness, fit, hemorrhage, indisposition, infirmity, misery, seizure, spell, temperature, unhealthiness, unsoundness, upset, visitation, ill health, pathosis, sickliness