illness (redirected from Psychosomatic illness)

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 [ˈɪlnɪs]

n

1. a disease or indisposition; sickness

2. a state of ill health

3. Obsolete wickedness

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illness

• accession - Can be the "onset of illness or a powerful feeling."
• allopathy, homeopathy - Allopathy is treatment to suppress the symptoms of illness using the principle of opposites, while homeopathy encourages, rather than suppresses, the body's reaction to an illness.
• idiopathic disease - An illness of unknown cause.
• languor - Any distressed condition, such as illness, sorrow, fatigue, etc.

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) She returned to her family home to recover from an illness.

Translations

illness [ˈɪlnɪs] N → enfermedad f, dolencia f (more frm)
illness prevented her going → una enfermedad le impidió asistir
see also mental

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illness [ˈɪlnɪs] n → maladie f

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illness

n → Krankheit f

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illness [ˈɪlnɪs] n → malattia

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illness ill

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illness → داء nemoc sygdom Krankheit αρρώστια enfermedad sairaus maladie bolest malattia 病気 병 ziekte sykdom choroba doença болезнь sjukdom ความเจ็บป่วย hastalık sự đau ốm 疾病