Definition of disease

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Disease (n.) An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder; -- applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc..

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Ectrotic :: Ectrotic (a.) Having a tendency to prevent the development of anything, especially of a disease..
Morbidity :: Morbidity (n.) Morbid quality; disease; sickness.
Restore :: Restore (v. t.) To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover..
Microphyte :: Microphyte (n.) A very minute plant, one of certain unicellular algae, such as the germs of various infectious diseases are believed to be..
Spavin :: Spavin (n.) A disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the bones; also, the swelling itself. The resulting lameness is due to the inflammation, and not the bony tumor as popularly supposed..
Semiography :: Semiography (n.) A description of the signs of disease.
Humorism :: Humorism (n.) The theory founded on the influence which the humors were supposed to have in the production of disease; Galenism.
Zymotic :: Zymotic (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below..
Medicine :: Medicine (n.) Any substance administered in the treatment of disease; a remedial agent; a remedy; physic.
Systemization :: Systemic (a.) Of or pertaining to the general system, or the body as a whole; as, systemic death, in distinction from local death; systemic circulation, in distinction from pulmonic circulation; systemic diseases..
Diseased :: Diseased (a.) Afflicted with disease.
Mortling :: Mortling (n.) An animal, as a sheep, dead of disease or privation; a mortling..
Thomsen''s Disease :: Thomsen's disease () An affection apparently congenital, consisting in tonic contraction and stiffness of the voluntary muscles occurring after a period of muscular inaction..
Cureall :: Cureall (n.) A remedy for all diseases, or for all ills; a panacea..
Bleareye :: Bleareye (n.) A disease of the eyelids, consisting in chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter..
Microphthalmy :: Microphthalmy (n.) An unnatural smallness of the eyes, occurring as the result of disease or of imperfect development..
Dipsosis :: Dipsosis (n.) Excessive thirst produced by disease.
Electropathy :: Electropathy (n.) The treatment of disease by electricity.
Impoverish :: Impoverish (v. t.) To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families..
Rheumatism :: Rheumatism (n.) A general disease characterized by painful, often multiple, local inflammations, usually affecting the joints and muscles, but also extending sometimes to the deeper organs, as the heart..
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