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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Deplumation :: Deplumation (n.) A disease of the eyelids, attended with loss of the eyelashes..
Cyanopathy :: Cyanopathy (n.) A disease in which the body is colored blue in its surface, arising usually from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood; blue jaundice..
Erythrogen :: Erythrogen (n.) A crystalline substance obtained from diseased bile, which becomes blood-red when acted on by nitric acid or ammonia..
Water Doctor :: Water doctor () A physician who treats diseases with water; an hydropathist.
Contagious :: Contagious (a.) Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air..
Morbillous :: Morbillous (a.) Pertaining to the measles; partaking of the nature of measels, or resembling the eruptions of that disease; measly..
Closh :: Closh (n.) A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis.
Diathetic :: Diathetic (a.) Pertaining to, or dependent on, a diathesis or special constitution of the body; as, diathetic disease..
Pestilence :: Pestilence (n.) Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating..
State :: State (n.) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme..
Carney :: Carney (n.) A disease of horses, in which the mouth is so furred that the afflicted animal can not eat..
Grudge :: Grudge (n.) Slight symptom of disease.
Evil :: Evil (n.) malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula..
Cure :: Cure (n.) Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury..
Coenurus :: Coenurus (n.) The larval stage of a tapeworm (Taenia coenurus) which forms bladderlike sacs in the brain of sheep, causing the fatal disease known as water brain, vertigo, staggers or gid..
The Gapes :: The gapes () A disease of young poultry and other birds, attended with much gaping. It is caused by a parasitic nematode worm (Syngamus trachealis), in the windpipe, which obstructs the breathing. See Gapeworm..
Thin :: Thin (superl.) Not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt; as, a person becomes thin by disease..
Popular :: Popular (a.) Prevailing among the people; epidemic; as, a popular disease..
Physic :: Physic (n.) The art of healing diseases; the science of medicine; the theory or practice of medicine.
Asthma :: Asthma (n.) A disease, characterized by difficulty of breathing (due to a spasmodic contraction of the bronchi), recurring at intervals, accompanied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, a cough, and expectoration..
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