dis·ease (d -z z )n. 1. A pathological condition of a part, organ, or system of an organism resulting from various causes, such as infection, genetic defect, or environmental stress, and characterized by an identifiable group of signs or symptoms. 2. A condition or tendency, as of society, regarded as abnormal and harmful. 3. Obsolete Lack of ease; trouble. [Middle English disese, from Old French : des-, dis- + aise, ease; see ease.] |
disease [dɪˈziːz]
n
1. (Medicine / Pathology) 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
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plant Pathology) a corresponding condition in plants
3. any situation or condition likened to this the disease of materialism Related adj pathological
[from Old French desaise; see dis-1, ease]
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
| Noun | 1. |  disease - an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioningillness, sickness, unwellness, malady - impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism disease of the neuromuscular junction - a disease characterized by impairment of neuromuscular junctions aspergillosis - disease especially in agricultural workers caused by inhalation of Aspergillus spores causing lumps in skin and ears and respiratory organs anthrax - a disease of humans that is not communicable; caused by infection with Bacillus anthracis followed by septicemia blackwater - any of several human or animal diseases characterized by dark urine resulting from rapid breakdown of red blood cells cat scratch disease - a disease thought to be transmitted to humans by a scratch from a cat complication - any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of (or because of) another disease; "bed sores are a common complication in cases of paralysis" crud - an ill-defined bodily ailment; "he said he had the crud and needed a doctor" endemic, endemic disease - a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location enteropathy - a disease of the intestinal tract incompetence - inability of a part or organ to function properly Kawasaki disease, mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome - an acute disease of young children characterized by a rash and swollen lymph nodes and fever; of unknown cause boutonneuse fever, Indian tick fever, Kenya fever, Marseilles fever - a disease (common in India and around the Mediterranean area) caused by a rickettsia that is transmitted to humans by a reddish brown tick (ixodid) that lives on dogs and other mammals Meniere's disease - a disease of the inner ear characterized by episodes of dizziness and tinnitus and progressive hearing loss (usually unilateral) milk sickness - caused by consuming milk from cattle suffering from trembles mimesis - any disease that shows symptoms characteristic of another disease industrial disease, occupational disease - disease or disability resulting from conditions of employment (usually from long exposure to a noxious substance or from continuous repetition of certain acts) onychosis - any disease or disorder of the nails rheumatism - any painful disorder of the joints or muscles or connective tissues periarteritis nodosa, polyarteritis nodosa - a progressive disease of connective tissue that is characterized by nodules along arteries; nodules may block the artery and result in inadequate circulation to the particular area periodontal disease, periodontitis - a disease that attacks the gum and bone and around the teeth liver disease - a disease affecting the liver communicable disease - a disease that can be communicated from one person to another exanthema subitum, pseudorubella, roseola infantilis, roseola infantum - a viral disease of infants and young children; characterized by abrupt high fever and mild sore throat; a few days later there is a faint pinkish rash that lasts for a few hours to a few days respiratory disease, respiratory disorder, respiratory illness - a disease affecting the respiratory system congenital disease, genetic abnormality, genetic defect, genetic disease, genetic disorder, hereditary condition, hereditary disease, inherited disease, inherited disorder - a disease or disorder that is inherited genetically inflammatory disease - a disease characterized by inflammation autoimmune disease, autoimmune disorder - any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues deficiency disease - any disease caused by a lack of an essential nutrient (as a vitamin or mineral) cystic breast disease, cystic mastitis, fibrocystic breast disease, fibrocystic disease of the breast - the presence of one or more cysts in a breast |
disease
noun
Diseases
Human diseases absinthism, acariasis, acne, acromegaly, actinodermatitis, actinomycosis, Addison's disease, adrenoleukodystrophy or ALD, aeroneurosis, agranulocytosis, ague, Aids or AIDS, alcoholism, Alzheimer's disease, amoebiasis, ancylostomiasis, anchylostomiasis, or ankylostomiasis, angina, anorexia or anorexia nervosa, anthracosis, anthrax, aortitis, appendicitis, apraxia, arteriosclerosis, arthritis, asbestosis, ascariasis, asthma, atherosclerosis, athlete's foot, avitaminosis, Bell's palsy, beriberi, bilharzia, bilharziasis or bilharziosis, Black Death, black measles, blackwater fever, Bornholm disease, Bright's disease, bronchiolitis, bronchitis, bronchopneumonia, brucellosis, bubonic plague, bulimia or bulimia nervosa, Burkitt lymphoma or Burkitt's lymphoma, bursitis, byssinosis, calenture, cancer, cardiomyopathy, carditis, caries, carpal tunnel syndrome, cellulitis, cerebellar syndrome, Chagas' disease, chickenpox, chin cough, chloracne, chlorosis, cholera, chorea, Christmas disease, chronic fatigue syndrome or CFS, cirrhosis, coal miner's lung, coccidioidomycosis, coeliac disease, cold, colitis, common cold, conjunctivitis, constipation, consumption, cor pulmonale, coxalgia, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Crohn's disease, Cushing's disease, cystic fibrosis, cystitis, dead fingers, decompression sickness, dengue, dermatitis, dhobi itch, diabetes, diarrhoea, diphtheria, diverticulitis, double pneumonia, dropsy, dysentery, earache, ebola virus disease, Economo's disease, eczema, elephantiasis, emphysema, encephalitis, encephalomyelitis, encephalopathy, endocarditis, enteritis, enterobiasis, enterocolitis, epilepsy, ergotism, erysipelas, erythroblastosis, exophthalmic goitre, farmer's lung, favus, fibrositis, filariasis, fishskin disease, flu, framboesia, furunculosis, gastritis, gastroenteritis, genital herpes, German measles, gingivitis, glandular fever, glaucoma, glomerulonephritis, glossitis, glue ear, goitre, gonorrhoea, gout, grand mal, green monkey disease, greensickness, haemoglobinopathy, haemophilia, Hansen's disease, hebephrenia, hepatitis, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, hidrosis, histoplasmosis, Hodgkin's disease, Huntington's chorea, hypothermia, hypothyroidism, ichthyosis, icterus, impetigo, infectious hepatitis, infectious mononucleosis, influenza, iritis, jaundice, jungle fever, kala-azar, Kaposi's sarcoma, Kawasaki's disease, Korsakoff's psychosis, kuru, labyrinthitis, laryngitis, Lassa fever, lathyrism, legionnaire's disease, leishmaniasis or leishmaniosis, leprosy, leptospirosis, leukaemia, listeriosis, lockjaw, lumbago, lupus, lupus erythematosus, lupus vulgaris, Lyme disease, lymphoma, malaria, Marburg disease, mastitis, measles, Ménière's syndrome, meningitis, milk sickness, motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis, mumps, muscular dystrophy, myalgic encephalomyelitis or ME, myasthenia gravis, myiasis, myopathy, myxoedema, narcolepsy, necrotising fasciitis, nephritis, nephrosis, neuropathy, non-A, non-B hepatitis, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, onchocerciasis, ornithosis, osteitis, osteitis deformans, osteoarthritis, osteomalacia, osteomyelitis, osteoporosis, otitis, Paget's disease, paratyphoid fever, Parkinson's disease, pellagra, pelvic inflammatory disease, pemphigus, pericarditis, petit mal, pharyngitis, phlebitis, phthisis, pinta, pityriasis, pleurisy, pleuropneumonia, pneumoconiosis, pneumonia, poliomyelitis or polio, polycythaemia, porphyria, Pott's disease, pox, presenile dementia, prurigo, psittacosis, psoriasis, purpura, pyorrhoea, Q fever, quinsy, rabies, radiation sickness, ratbite fever or ratbite disease, Raynaud's disease, relapsing fever, retinitis, Reye's syndrome, rheumatic fever, rheumatoid arthritis, rhinitis, rickets, rickettsial disease, ringworm, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, rubella, Saint Vitus's dance, salmonella or salmonellosis, salpingitis, sapraemia, sarcomatosis, scabies, scarlet fever or scarlatina, schistosomiasis, schizophrenia, schizothymia, sciatica, scleroderma, sclerodermia, or scleriasis, scrofula, scrub typhus, scurvy, seasonal affective disorder, seborrhoea, senile dementia, septicaemia, serpigo, serum sickness, shell shock, shingles, sickle-cell anaemia, siderosis, silicosis, sinusitis, sleeping sickness, smallpox, spina bifida, spirochaetosis, splenitis, splenomegaly, spondylitis, spotted fever, sprue, stomatitis, strongyloidiasis or strongyloidosis, sunstroke, sweating sickness, swinepox, sycosis, Sydenham's chorea, synovitis, syphilis, syringomyelia, tarantism, Tay-Sachs disease, tetanus, thalassaemia, thrush, tick fever, tinea, tonsillitis, Tourette syndrome, toxic shock syndrome, trachoma, trench fever, trench mouth, trichinosis, trypanosomiasis, tsutsugamushi disease, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, typhus, uncinariasis, uraemia, urethritis, urticaria, utriculitis, uveitis, vaginitis, vagotonia, valvulitis, varicosis, variola, varioloid, venereal disease, Vincent's angina or Vincent's disease, vulvitis, vulvovaginitis, Weil's disease, whooping cough, yaws, yellow fever
Animal diseases actinomycosis or (nontechnical) lumpy jaw, anbury, anthrax, blackleg, bots, braxy, brucellosis or undulant fever, BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) or (informal) mad cow disease, bull nose, bush sickness (N.Z.), canker, cowpox, distemper, dourine, foot-and-mouth disease or hoof-and-mouth disease, fowl pest, furunculosis, gallsickness or anaplasmosis, gapes, gid, glanders, grapes, hard pad, heaves or broken wind, laminitis or founder, lampas or lampers, loco disease, Lyme disease, malanders, mallanders, or mallenders, Marburg disease or green monkey disease, milk fever, moon blindness or mooneye, murrain, myxomatosis, nagana, Newcastle disease or fowl pest, ornithosis, pinkeye, pip, pityriasis, psittacosis, pullorum disease or bacillary white diarrhoea, quarter crack, quittor, red water, rinderpest, ringbone, roaring, rot, roup, sand crack, scab, scrapie, scratches, seedy toe, sheep measles, sitfast, spavin, staggers, blind staggers, or megrims, strangles or equine distemper, stringhalt or springhalt, surra, swamp fever or equine infectious anaemia, sweating sickness, sweeny, swine fever or (U.S.) hog cholera, swinepox or variola porcina, swine vesicular disease, Texas fever, thoroughpin, thrush, toe crack, trembles or milk sickness, warble, whistling, windgall
Translations
disease [dɪˈziːz] n
disease
n (lit, fig) → Krankheit f
n disease [diˈziːz]
(an) illness She's suffering from kidney disease; poverty and disease. siekte, kwaal مَرَض болеcт nemoc, choroba, nákaza sygdom; -sygdom die Krankheit ασθένεια enfermedad, mal haigus بیماری؛ مرض sairaus maladie מַחֲלָה बीमारी bolest betegség penyakit sjúkdómur malattia 病気 질병 liga slimība penyakit ziekte sykdom, –syke, lidelse choroba doença boală болезнь choroba bolezen bolest sjukdom[] โรคภัยไข้เจ็บ hastalık 疾病 хвороба, захворювання مرض bệnh 疾病
disease → مرض nemoc sygdom Krankheit ασθένεια enfermedad sairaus maladie bolest malattia 病気 병 ziekte sykdom choroba doença болезнь sjukdom เชื้อโรค hastalık bệnh 疾病
How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content.
| ?Page tools | ||
|---|---|---|
|