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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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Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt..

Vaccine :: Vaccine (a.) Of or pertaining to cows; pertaining to, derived from, or caused by, vaccinia; as, vaccine virus; the vaccine disease..

Alpestrine :: Alpestrine (a.) Pertaining to the Alps, or other high mountains; as, Alpestrine diseases, etc..

Preventable :: Preventable (a.) Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases..

Aphasy :: Aphasy (n.) Loss of the power of speech, or of the appropriate use of words, the vocal organs remaining intact, and the intelligence being preserved. It is dependent on injury or disease of the brain..

Hectic :: Hectic (a.) Habitual; constitutional; pertaining especially to slow waste of animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic type in disease; a hectic flush..

Bend :: Bend (n.) same as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends.

Talisman :: Talisman (n.) Hence, something that produces extraordinary effects, esp. in averting or repelling evil; an amulet; a charm; as, a talisman to avert diseases..

Uroscopy :: Uroscopy (n.) The diagnosis of diseases by inspection of urine.

Polydipsia :: Polydipsia (n.) Excessive and constant thirst occasioned by disease.

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

Idiopathy :: Idiopathy (n.) A morbid state or condition not preceded or occasioned by any other disease; a primary disease.

Isopathy :: Isopathy (n.) The doctrine that the power of therapeutics is equal to that of the causes of disease.

Filanders :: Filanders (n. pl.) A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; -- called also backworm..

Solidism :: Solidism (n.) The doctrine that refers all diseases to morbid changes of the solid parts of the body. It rests on the view that the solids alone are endowed with vital properties, and can receive the impression of agents tending to produce disease..

Plague :: Plague (v. t.) To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind..

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

Recrudescency :: Recrudescency (n.) Increased severity of a disease after temporary remission.

Braxy :: Braxy (n.) A diseased sheep, or its mutton..

Venereal :: Venereal (a.) Arising from sexual intercourse; as, a venereal disease; venereal virus or poison..