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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Bloody Sweat :: Bloody sweat () A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries..
Palliate :: Palliate (v. t.) To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease..
Quarantine :: Quarantine (v. t.) To compel to remain at a distance, or in a given place, without intercourse, when suspected of having contagious disease; to put under, or in, quarantine..
Exacerbation :: Exacerbation (n.) A periodical increase of violence in a disease, as in remittent or continious fever; an increased energy of diseased and painful action..
Ill :: Ill (a.) Sick; indisposed; unwell; diseased; disordered; as, ill of a fever..
Epitasis :: Epitasis (n.) The period of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm.
Splint :: Splint (v. t.) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence..
Coindication :: Coindication (n.) One of several signs or symptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease..
Diseasefulness :: Diseasefulness (n.) The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial.
Cure :: Cure (n.) Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure..
Prophylactic :: Prophylactic (n.) A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.
Egophony :: Egophony (n.) The sound of a patient's voice so modified as to resemble the bleating of a goat, heard on applying the ear to the chest in certain diseases within its cavity, as in pleurisy with effusion..
Precipitate :: Precipitate (a.) Ending quickly in death; brief and fatal; as, a precipitate case of disease..
Surgery :: Surgery (n.) The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of the body; that branch of medical science which has for its object the cure of local injuries or diseases, as wounds or fractures, tumors, etc., whether by manual operation or by medicines and constitutional treatment..
Amnesia :: Amnesia (n.) Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ..
Sicken :: Sicken (v. t.) To make sick; to disease.
Morkin :: Morkin (n.) A beast that has died of disease or by mischance.
Pemphigus :: Pemphigus (n.) A somewhat rare skin disease, characterized by the development of blebs upon different part of the body..
Humorist :: Humorist (n.) One who attributes diseases of the state of the humors.
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..
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