English > disease: 1 sense > noun 1, state| Meaning | An impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning. |
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| Parts | sign | (medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease |
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| symptom | (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease |
| syndrome | A pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease |
| Narrower | Kawasaki disease, mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome | An acute disease of young children characterized by a rash and swollen lymph nodes and fever |
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| Marseilles fever, Kenya fever, Indian tick fever, boutonneuse 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) |
| animal disease | A disease that typically does not affect human beings |
| anthrax | A disease of humans that is not communicable |
| aspergillosis | disease especially in agricultural workers caused by inhalation of Aspergillus spores causing lumps in skin and ears and respiratory organs |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| communicable disease | A disease that can be communicated from one person to another |
| complication | Any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of (or because of) another disease |
| crud | An ill-defined bodily ailment |
| deficiency disease | Any disease caused by a lack of an essential nutrient (as a vitamin or mineral) |
| disease of the neuromuscular junction | A disease characterized by impairment of neuromuscular junctions |
| 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 |
| exanthema subitum, roseola infantum, roseola infantilis, pseudorubella | A viral disease of infants and young children |
| eye disease | Any disease of the eye |
| fibrocystic breast disease, fibrocystic disease of the breast, cystic breast disease, cystic mastitis | The presence of one or more cysts in a breast |
| filariasis | A disease caused by nematodes in the blood or tissues of the body causing blockage of lymphatic vessels |
| genetic disease, genetic disorder, genetic abnormality, genetic defect, congenital disease, inherited disease, inherited disorder, hereditary disease, hereditary condition | A disease or disorder that is inherited genetically |
| goiter, goitre, struma, thyromegaly | abnormally enlarged thyroid gland |
| incompetence | inability of a part or organ to function properly |
| inflammatory disease | A disease characterized by inflammation |
| liver disease | A disease affecting the liver |
| malignancy, malignance | (medicine) a malignant state |
| milk sickness | Caused by consuming milk from cattle suffering from trembles |
| mimesis | Any disease that shows symptoms characteristic of another disease |
| occupational disease, industrial disease | disease or disability resulting from conditions of employment / employment (usually from long exposure to a noxious substance or from continuous repetition of certain acts) |
| onychosis | Any disease or disorder of the nails |
| ozena, ozaena | A chronic disease of the nose characterized by a foul-smelling nasal discharge and atrophy of nasal structures |
| periarteritis nodosa, polyarteritis nodosa | A progressive disease of connective tissue that is characterized by nodules along arteries |
| periodontal disease, periodontitis | A disease that attacks the gum and bone and around the teeth |
| plant disease | A disease that affects plants |
| pycnosis, pyknosis | A degenerative state of the cell nucleus |
| respiratory disease, respiratory illness, respiratory disorder | A disease affecting the respiratory system |
| rheumatism | Any painful disorder of the joints or muscles or connective tissues |
| sandfly fever, pappataci fever, phlebotomus | A mild viral disease transmitted by the bite of the sand fly Phlebotomus papatasii |
| skin disease, disease of the skin, skin disorder | A disease affecting the skin |
| Broader | illness, unwellness, malady, sickness | impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism |
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| Spanish | afección, dolencia, enfermedades, enfermedad, mal, patología |
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| Catalan | afecció, malaltia, morbositat, patologia |
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