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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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Charbon :: Charbon (n.) A very contagious and fatal disease of sheep, horses, and cattle. See Maligmant pustule..

Avail :: Avail (v. i.) To be of use or advantage; to answer the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the plea in bar must avail, that is, be sufficient to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease..

Alienism :: Alienism (n.) The study or treatment of diseases of the mind.

Bloody Flux :: Bloody flux () The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood..

Alienist :: Alienist (n.) One who treats diseases of the mind.

Mortling :: Mortling (n.) An animal, as a sheep, dead of disease or privation; a mortling..

Cirrhosis :: Cirrhosis (n.) A disease of the liver in which it usually becomes smaller in size and more dense and fibrous in consistence; hence sometimes applied to similar changes in other organs, caused by increase in the fibrous framework and decrease in the proper substance of the organ..

Communicate :: Communicate (v. i.) To impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank..

Alexiteric :: Alexiteric (n.) A preservative against contagious and infectious diseases, and the effects of poison in general..

Spagyrist :: Spagyrist (n.) One of a sect which arose in the days of alchemy, who sought to discover remedies for disease by chemical means. The spagyrists historically preceded the iatrochemists..

Gonococcus :: Gonococcus (n.) A vegetable microorganism of the genus Micrococcus, occurring in the secretion in gonorrhea. It is believed by some to constitute the cause of this disease..

Chiragrical :: Chiragrical (a.) Having the gout in the hand, or subject to that disease..

Alcoholism :: Alcoholism (n.) A diseased condition of the system, brought about by the continued use of alcoholic liquors..

Allopathy :: Allopathy (n.) That system of medical practice which aims to combat disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the special disease treated; -- a term invented by Hahnemann to designate the ordinary practice, as opposed to homeopathy..

Alchemy :: Alchemy (n.) An imaginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry..

Malaria :: Malaria (n.) Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma..

Dysentery :: Dysentery (n.) A disease attended with inflammation and ulceration of the colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood..

Backworm :: Backworm (n.) A disease of hawks. See Filanders.

Contagionist :: Contagionist (n.) One who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases, as of yellow fever..

Ailment :: Ailment (n.) Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases.