illness (redirected from Illnesses)

ill·ness  (lns)

n.

1.

a. Poor health resulting from disease of body or mind; sickness.

b. A disease.

2. Obsolete Evil; wickedness.

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illness

Noun

1. a disease or indisposition

2. a state of ill health

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

illness - impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism sickness, unwellness, malady condition - an illness, disease, or other medical problem; "a heart condition"; "a skin condition" health problem, ill health, unhealthiness - a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain ague - a fit of shivering or shaking amyloidosis - a disorder characterized by deposit of amyloid in organs or tissues; often secondary to chronic rheumatoid arthritis or tuberculosis or multiple myeloma anuresis, anuria - inability to urinate catastrophic illness - severe illness requiring prolonged hospitalization or recovery; usually involves high costs for hospitals and doctors and medicines collapse, prostration - an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion; "the commander's prostration demoralized his men" bends, caisson disease, decompression sickness, gas embolism, aeroembolism, air embolism - pain resulting from rapid change in pressure food poisoning, gastrointestinal disorder - illness caused by poisonous or contaminated food lead poisoning, plumbism, saturnism - toxic condition produced by the absorption of excessive lead into the system disease - an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning hypermotility - excessive movement; especially excessive motility of the gastrointestinal tract indisposition - a slight illness ozone sickness - illness that can occur to persons exposed to ozone in high-altitude aircraft; characterized by sleepiness and headache and chest pains and itchiness toxaemia, toxaemia of pregnancy, toxemia, toxemia of pregnancy - an abnormal condition of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and edema and protein in the urine growth - (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor) health, wellness - a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease; "physicians should be held responsible for the health of their patients"

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illness

noun sickness, ill health, malaise, attack, disease, complaint, infection, disorder, bug (informal) disability, ailment, affliction, poor health, malady, infirmity, indisposition, lurgy (informal)

Translations

illness [ˈɪlnɪs] n → enfermedad f

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illness [ˈɪlnɪs] n → maladie f

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illness [ˈɪlnɪs] n → Krankheit f

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illness [ˈɪlnɪs] n → malattia

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