Another word for disease
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Noun
A pathological condition of mind or body
- Nausea.
- A disease; a malady.
- The condition of being sick or diseased; illness
- An unwholesome condition:
- A disease, disorder, or ailment.
- A moral failing or defect in character:
- A bodily ailment or weakness:
- The condition of being infirm, often as associated with old age; weakness or frailty:
- Poor health resulting from disease of body or mind; sickness.
- A disease.
- The condition of being ill, or in poor health; sickness; disease
- Something that causes suffering; trouble:
- Sick people considered as a group. Often used with the.
- Evil, wrongdoing, or harm:
- A lack of order or regular arrangement; confusion.
- An ailment that affects the function of mind or body:
- A condition characterized by lack of normal functioning of physical or mental processes:
- A subject or cause for complaining; grievance
- An illness; ailment
- A bodily disorder or disease; a malady or ailment.
- Any bodily or mental disorder; illness, esp. a mild, chronic one
- A physical or mental disorder, especially a mild illness.
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Another word for disease
Noun
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- A measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in a sample of matter, expressed in terms of units or degrees designated on a standard scale.
- An abnormally high condition of body heat caused by illness; a fever.
- The degree of heat in the body of a living organism, usually about 37.0°C (98.6°F) in humans.
- An insect having mouthparts used for piercing and sucking, such as an aphid, a bedbug, or a stinkbug.
- Any small arthropod, esp. if regarded as a pest, as a louse, cockroach, or centipede
- (Informal) Any microscopic organism, esp. one causing disease; germ or virus
- The medical science of symptoms.
- The combined symptoms of a disease.
- A departure or deviation from a normal condition:
- Any abnormal variation from a sound or proper condition
- The branch of medicine that deals with the nature of disease, esp. with the structural and functional changes caused by disease
- The act or process of failing to function or continue.
- A failure to work or function properly
- The condition resulting from this:
- An abrupt failure of function, strength, or health; a breakdown.
- An abrupt loss of perceived value or of effect:
- The act of collapsing; a falling in or together; failure or breakdown, as in business or health
- The act or an instance of seizing or the condition of being seized.
- An instance of abnormal, especially excessive electrical activity in the brain, causing symptoms such as involuntary muscle movements and the loss of awareness or the ability to pay attention.
- (Med. --- Archaic) A sudden attack of illness, as a stroke
- Scoring ability or potential:
- An episode or onset of a disease, often sudden in nature.
- An episode or onset of a disease, especially an occurrence of a chronic disease:
- A body temperature that is higher than normal, caused by an infection, ovulation, vigorous exercise, etc.; pyrexia
- A condition of nervousness or restless excitement
- A condition of heightened activity or excitement:
- (Pathology) A recognizable pattern of signs, symptoms and/or behaviours.
- A complex of symptoms indicating the existence of an undesirable condition or quality:
- A group of symptoms that collectively indicate or characterize a disease, psychological disorder, or other abnormal condition.
- A complicated condition or structure; complex, involved, or confused relationship of parts
- A factor, condition, or element that complicates.
- (Medicine) A secondary disease, an accident, or a negative reaction occurring during the course of an illness and usually aggravating the illness.
- Anything causing pain or distress; calamity
- An afflicted condition; pain; suffering
- Disease transmission by direct or indirect contact.
- The causative agent of a communicable disease; bacteria or virus
- The direct cause, such as a bacterium or virus, of a communicable disease.
- A harmful or destructive influence:
- Any of various submicroscopic agents that infect living organisms, often causing disease, and that consist of a single or double strand of RNA or DNA surrounded by a protein coat. Unable to replicate without a host cell, viruses are typically not considered living organisms.
- A disease caused by a virus.
- An instance of being infected:
- A disease resulting from
- The invasion of bodily tissue by pathogenic microorganisms that proliferate, resulting in tissue injury that can progress to disease:
- Anything, as a doctrine, regarded as harmful or dangerous
- Any virulent or fatal contagious or infectious disease, esp. one of epidemic proportions, as bubonic plague
- A usually fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague.
- Any contagious epidemic disease that is deadly; esp., bubonic plague
- A highly infectious, usually fatal, epidemic disease; a pestilence.
- A virulent, infectious disease that is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis (syn. Pasteurella pestis ) and is transmitted primarily by the bite of fleas from an infected rodent, especially a rat. In humans it occurs in bubonic form, marked by lymph node enlargement, and in pneumonic form, marked by infection of the lungs, and can progress to septicemia.
- A rapid spread, growth, or development:
- An outbreak of a contagious disease that spreads rapidly and widely.
- The rapid spreading of such a disease
- State, quality, or instance of being morbid
- The rate of incidence of a disease.
- The rate of disease or proportion of diseased persons in a given locality, nation, etc.
- The action or an instance of visiting or an instance of being visited:
- The provision made for a parent to spend time with a child who is in the physical custody of another.
- A calamitous event or experience; a grave misfortune:
- A mental or emotional state or tendency; disposition or feeling
- (Archaic) A disease; ailment
- An affecting or being affected
- A bodily ailment or weakness:
- A moral failing or defect in character:
- The condition of being infirm, often as associated with old age; weakness or frailty:
- The state of being unsound
- An illness or disease; an ailment:
- A mental or physical derangement or disorder; disease
- A similar viral disease of cats characterized by fever, vomiting, diarrhea leading to dehydration, and sometimes death.
- An illness; ailment
- A subject or cause for complaining; grievance
- A bodily disorder or disease; a malady or ailment.
- A mode or state of being:
- An illness; ailment
- A disease or physical ailment:
- A lack of order or regular arrangement; confusion.
- An ailment that affects the function of mind or body:
- A condition characterized by lack of normal functioning of physical or mental processes:
- The state of being unhealthy.
- A bad mood or disposition
- A mild illness, the state of being indisposed
- A slight illness
- Poor health resulting from disease of body or mind; sickness.
- A disease.
- The condition of being ill, or in poor health; sickness; disease
- Any bodily or mental disorder; illness, esp. a mild, chronic one
- A physical or mental disorder, especially a mild illness.
- A disease, disorder, or ailment.
- An unwholesome condition:
- Nausea.
- A disease; a malady.
- The condition of being sick or diseased; illness
Synonym Study
- Ailment refers to a chronic, annoying disorder of whatever degree of seriousness the minor ailments of the aged
- Malady usually refers to a deep-seated chronic disease, frequently one that is ultimately fatal
- Condition and affection refer to a disorder of a specific organ or part a heart condition, an affection of the spleen
- Disease may apply generally to any deviation of the body from its normal or healthy state, or it may refer to a particular disorder with a specific cause and characteristic symptoms
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