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See also: dis-ease
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- (uneasiness): dis-ease
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English disese, from Anglo-Norman desese, disaise, from Old French desaise, from des- + aise. Equivalent to dis- + ease. Displaced native Middle English adle, audle (“disease”) (from Old English ādl (“disease, sickness”), see adle), Middle English cothe, coathe (“disease”) (from Old English coþu (“disease”), see coath).
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Noun[edit]
disease (countable and uncountable, plural diseases)
- (medicine) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
- The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and fruit withered.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 272, column 2:
- […] diſeaſes deſperate growne,
By deſperate appliance are releeued,
Or not at all.
- November 22, 1787, James Madison Jr., Federalist No. 10
- The instability, injustice, and confusion, introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished; […]
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, →OL:
- […] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes […] And then, when you see [the senders], you probably find that they are the most melancholy old folk with malignant diseases.
- 2012 March 1, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87:
- Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.
- (by extension) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
- 1955, The Urantia Book, Paper 134:6.7:
- War is not man's great and terrible disease; war is a symptom, a result. The real disease is the virus of national sovereignty.
- Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 40, page 422:
- c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […], published 1608, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- To ſhield thee from diſeaſes of the world, […]
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Terms derived from disease: eponyms
- Addison's disease
- Alzheimer's disease (AD)
- Andersen disease
- Arkin's disease
- Aujeszky's disease
- Baló's disease
- Bamberger-Marie disease
- Bang's disease (brucellosis)
- Barcoo disease
- Basedow's disease
- Benson's disease (astroid hyalosis)
- Besnier-Boeck disease, Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann disease
- Blount's disease
- Bright's disease
- Buerger's disease
- Calvé's disease
- Canavan disease, Canavan-Van Bogaert-Bertrand disease
- Carrion's disease
- Chagas' disease (CD)
- Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease (CMT)
- Charcot's disease, Charcot disease
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
- Christmas disease (haemophilia B, hemophilia B)
- Crohn's disease (CD)
- Curschmann-Steinert disease
- Darier's disease
- Darling's disease
- Duchenne-Aran disease
- Dubreuilh-Hutchinson disease
- Dupuytren's disease, Dupuytren disease
- Ebola virus disease (EVD)
- Eisenmenger disease, Eisenmenger's disease
- Hirschsprung disease (Morbus Hirschsprung)
- HIV disease
- Filatov's disease, Filatov disease
- Gaucher's disease (GD)
- Gerstmann-Sträussler disease (GSD)
- Graves' disease, Graves disease (GD)
- Haglund's disease
- Hailey-Hailey disease
- Hand-Schüller-Christian disease
- Hansen's disease, Hansen disease (HD) (leprosy)
- Hodgkin's disease (HD)
- Hoffa's disease
- Huntington's disease (HD)
- Kahler's disease (MM) (multiple myeloma)
- Kennedy's disease, Kennedy disease (KD)
- Kienböck’s disease
- Krabbe disease
- Kussmaul-Maier disease
- Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD)
- Larsen-Johansson disease
- Lhermitte-Duclos disease
- Little's disease
- Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS)
- Ledderhose's disease, Ledderhose disease
- Marburger virus disease (MVD)
- Marburg virus disease (MVD)
- Marion's disease, Marion disease
- Martin's disease
- Ménière's disease (MD)
- Minamata disease
- Miyasato's disease
- Mondor's disease
- Monge's disease
- Mucha's disease
- Naito-Oyanagi disease (NOD)
- Niemann-Pick disease
- Ollier's disease
- Osgood-Schlatter's disease
- Paget's disease of bone, Paget's disease
- Paget's disease of the breast
- Paget-Schroetter disease, Paget-von Schrötter disease
- Panner's disease
- Parkinson's disease (PD)
- Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease, Pelizaeus-Merzbacher's disease (PMD)
- Panama disease
- Pendred disease (Pendred syndrome)
- Perthes' disease (PD)
- Peyronie's disease (Induratio penis plastica) (IPP)
- Pfeiffer's disease
- Pick's disease
- Posadas-Wernicke disease
- Pott's disease
- Purtscher's disease
- Raynaud's disease
- Recklinghausen disease
- Riggs' disease
- Roth-Bernhardt disease (Meralgia paraesthetica)
- Schamberg disease
- Scheuermann's disease (SD)
- Schimmelbusch's disease
- Schneeberg disease, Schneeberg lung disease
- Seitelberger's disease, Seitelberger disease
- Steinert disease
- Takahara's disease
- Takatsuki disease (POEMS syndrome)
- Thiemann's disease
- von Willebrand disease (vWD)
- Weil's disease
- Wilson's disease (WD)
Terms derived from disease - toponyms
- Aleutian disease
- Appalachian Mountain disease
- Borna disease (BD)
- Borna disease virus (BDV)
- Bourneville's disease
- British disease
- California disease
- Central Mississippi River Valley disease (histomatosis)
- Deutschländer's disease
- Dutch disease
- Dutch elm disease
- English disease
- French disease
- Guinea worm disease (GWD)
- Keshan disease
- Newcastle disease
- Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV)
- Lyme disease (LD)
- Ockelbo disease
- Ohio Valley disease (histoplasmosis)
Terms derived from disease: others
- acute respiratory disease (ARD)
- alcoholic liver disease
- anterior horn cell disease
- aortoiliac occlusive disease (AOD)
- area under disease progress curve (AUDPC)
- argyrophilic grain disease (AGD)
- arteriosclerotic heart disease (ASHD)
- artery disease
- artery occlusive disease (AOD)
- artificial disease
- autoimmune disease
- autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED)
- blackhead disease
- black urine disease
- blood disease
- blue ear disease
- blue disease
- bluetongue disease, blue tongue disease
- bomb-shell disease
- bone disease
- bone-thinning disease
- brain disease
- brittle-bone disease
- brown lung disease (byssinosis)
- CADASIL disease
- caisson disease
- calculous biliary disease
- cardiac disease
- cardiovascular disease (CVD)
- cat scratch disease (CSD)
- celiac disease, coeliac disease
- cerebrovascular disease (CVD)
- chronic beryllium disease (CBD)
- chronic granulomatous disease (CGD)
- chronic inflammatory bowel disease (CIBD)
- chronic kidney disease (CKD)
- chronic obstructive airway disease (COAD)
- chronic obstructive lung disease (COLD)
- chronic renal disease (CRD)
- chronic respiratory disease (CRD)
- clinical disease
- clown fish disease
- coeliac disease, celiac disease
- conformational disease (CD)
- congenital metabolic disease
- connective tissue disease (CTD)
- coronary artery disease (CAD)
- coronary disease
- coronary heart disease (CHD)
- cytomegalic inclusion disease (CID)
- deficiency disease
- degenerative joint disease (DJD)
- demyelinating disease
- diffuse parenchymal lung disease (DPLD)
- disease-free
- diseaseless
- disease management
- disease management program (DMP)
- disease-modifying
- disease mongering
- disease of affluence
- disease of civilisation, disease of civilization
- disease pattern
- diverticular disease (DD)
- extramammary Paget's disease (EMPD)
- farmer's disease
- fatty liver disease (FLD)
- fifth disease
- foot-and-mouth disease (FMD)
- foot-and-mouth disease virus
- gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
- gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD)
- gastro-intestinal disease
- general disease
- generalized disease
- genetic disease
- genetic prion disease
- genital tract disease
- geriatric disease
- gingival disease
- glycogen storage disease (GSD)
- graft-versus-host disease
- grapevine disease
- green monkey disease
- gross structural heart disease
- haemolytic disease of the newborn, hemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN)
- hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD)
- heart disease
- heartworm disease
- hoof-and-mouth disease (HMD)
- hookworm disease
- hyaline membrane disease (HMD)
- hypokinetic disease
- immune-mediated disease (IMD)
- immunocomplex disease
- immunoproliferative disease
- inflammatory airway disease (IAD)
- inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
- interstitial lung disease (ILD)
- intervertebral disk disease (IVDD)
- ischaemic heart disease, ischemic heart disease (IHD)
- kala-azar disease
- leaf curl disease
- leaf spot disease
- legionnaires' disease
- loco disease, locoweed disease
- lymphoproliferative disease (LPD)
- mad cow disease
- managerial disease
- maple syrup urine disease (MSUD)
- medullary cystic kidney disease (MCKD)
- mental disease
- metabolic bone disease (MBD)
- metabolic disease
- microvillus inclusion disease (MID)
- motor neuron disease (MND)
- National Communicable Disease Center (NCDC)
- National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit (NCJDSU)
- neurocutaneous disease (NCD)
- neurodegenerative disease (ND)
- neuroimmunological disease
- neuromuscular disease (ND)
- neuronal intermediate filament inclusion disease (NIFID)
- no appreciable disease (n.a.d., NAD)
- nodding disease
- no evidence of disease (NED)
- non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
- notifiable disease
- obstructive airway disease (OAD)
- obstructive airways disease (OAD)
- obstructive disease
- occlusive disease (OD)
- occupational disease
- old-timers' disease (eggcorn for Alzheimer's disease)
- organic disease
- orphan disease
- paediatric disease, pediatric disease
- parrot disease (psittacosis)
- pearl disease
- pearly disease
- pediatric disease, paediatric disease
- pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)
- peptic ulcer disease (PUD)
- peripheral artery disease (PAD)
- peripheral artery occlusive disease (PAOD)
- peripheral occlusive disease (POD)
- peripheral vascular disease (PVD)
- pigeon breeder's disease
- plant virus disease
- pneumatic hammer disease
- polycystic kidney disease (PKD)
- polycystic liver disease (PLD)
- prion disease
- protein misfolding disease (PMD)
- protein-folding disease
- pullorum disease
- radiation-induced liver disease (RILD)
- reactive airway disease (RAD)
- rebellious disease
- renal disease
- rickettsial disease
- round heart disease
- serum disease
- sexually transmitted disease (STD)
- shothole disease
- sickle cell disease
- silver leaf disease
- sixth disease
- skin disease
- stone disease
- stress disease
- structural heart disease
- subclinical disease
- swainsonine disease
- swineherder's disease
- swineherd's disease
- swine vesicular disease (SVD)
- tomato disease
- urinary bladder disease
- valvular heart disease (VHD)
- variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD)
- venereal disease (VD)
- venous disease
- vine disease
- viral disease
- viral haemorrhagic disease, viral hemorrhagic disease (VHD)
- vocational disease
- white muscle disease (WMD)
- white spot disease
- widespread disease
- wilt disease
- wind disease (TCM)
- wobbler disease
- woolsorter's disease
- zoonotic disease
- zymotic disease
terms derived from "disease" (unsorted)
- akamushi disease
- Alpers' disease
- anatipestifer disease
- arc welder's disease
- Armenian disease
- Barlow's disease
- Batten disease
- Bayoud disease
- Bechterew's disease
- Behçet's disease
- Behcet's disease
- Bekhterev's disease
- black band disease
- blue-ear pig disease
- Bornholm disease
- Bowen's disease
- brick venereal disease
- Brill-Zinsser disease
- brittle bone disease
- bronze disease
- bronzed skin disease
- bubble baby disease
- bubble boy disease
- Buerger disease
- Buschke disease
- calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate deposition disease
- Camurati-Engelmann disease
- Castleman's disease
- cave disease
- Chagas disease
- Cheadle's disease
- chronic Lyme disease
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- chronic wasting disease
- cold agglutinin disease
- collagen disease
- copper transport disease
- coronavirus disease 2019
- corridor disease
- creeping disease
- crowd disease
- Cumberland disease
- Cupid's disease
- Darier-Roussy disease
- Dercum's disease
- devil facial tumor disease
- disappearing disease
- disease boat
- disease enhancement
- disease of despair
- disease-ridden
- Duhring's disease
- epizootic hemorrhagic disease
- Erdheim-Chester disease
- Fabry disease
- Fabry's disease
- Fahr disease
- fall dwindle disease
- Farber disease
- flesh-eating disease
- flint disease
- Fong disease
- Fonseca's disease
- food-borne disease
- foot-in-mouth disease
- Forestier disease
- Forestier's disease
- Fox-Fordyce disease
- Gaucher disease
- germ theory of disease
- glass bone disease
- glass disease
- Glénard's disease
- Gorham's disease
- haemorrhoidal disease
- Hallervorden-Spatz disease
- hardware disease
- Hashimoto-Pritzker disease
- Hashimoto's disease
- heart-hand disease
- hemolytic disease
- Hirschsprung's disease
- Hunt's disease
- Hurler's disease
- imperial disease
- industrial disease
- infectious disease
- infectious disease specialist
- itai-itai disease
- January disease
- Johne's disease
- jumping disease
- Kashin-Beck disease
- Kashin-Bek disease
- Kawasaki disease
- Kawasaki's disease
- Kienbock's disease
- Kienböck's disease
- Kimura disease
- kinky hair disease
- kissing disease
- Krishaber's disease
- Kyasanur forest disease
- Lanarkshire disease
- Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease
- Legionnaires' disease
- Leigh disease
- Leiner's disease
- Letterer-Siwe disease
- lifestyle disease
- lime disease
- littleleaf disease
- lumpy skin disease
- Lytico-Bodig disease
- mad hatter disease
- maple bark disease
- maple bark stripper's disease
- Marburg disease
- Marek's disease
- Marie's disease
- McArdle's disease
- MEB disease
- medical students' disease
- Menkes disease
- Mikulicz disease
- milky disease
- Milroy's disease
- miner's disease
- Mitchell's disease
- Moeller's disease
- Möller-Barlow disease
- Monday morning disease
- motor neurone disease
- Moyamoya disease
- muscle-eye-brain disease
- myeloproliferative disease
- nameless bee disease
- Nasu-Hakola disease
- navicular disease
- Nightcliff gardener's disease
- nil disease
- Nobel disease
- Norrie disease
- nosema disease
- Nosema-disease
- Nosema disease
- oculocraniosomatic disease
- old timers' disease
- old timer's disease
- old-timer's disease
- Ollier disease
- Osgood-Schlatter disease
- Osler-Rendu-Weber disease
- Osler-Weber-Rendu disease
- overstraining disease
- Panner disease
- Pedroso's disease
- Perthes disease
- phantom bone disease
- Pierce's disease
- pink disease
- Pogosta disease
- Pompe disease
- pre-disease
- pulseless disease
- pyrosomal disease
- red tail disease
- Refsum disease
- Refsum's disease
- Reiter's disease
- Rendu-Osler-Weber disease
- rich man's disease
- Ritter's disease
- Robles' disease
- rolling skin disease
- royal disease
- Royal Free disease
- runt disease
- Salla disease
- Sandhoff disease
- seastar wasting disease
- sea-star wasting disease
- sea star wasting disease
- Sézary's disease
- sickle-cell disease
- Silk Road disease
- skinbound disease
- skull base disease
- sooty bark disease
- Spielmeyer-Vogt-Sjögren-Batten disease
- St. Hubert's disease
- starfish wasting disease
- Stargardt disease
- steely hair disease
- Still's disease
- suicide disease
- systemic exertion intolerance disease
- Tay-Sachs disease
- Teeny's disease
- Teschen disease
- the cure is worse than the disease
- Thomsen disease
- Thomsen's disease
- tropical disease
- tunnel disease
- turkey X disease
- Urbach-Wiethe disease
- Viking disease
- Virchow's disease
- Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease
- von Economo disease
- Von Hippel-Lindau disease
- von Hippel–Lindau disease
- von Recklinghausen disease
- von Willebrand's disease
- walking disease
- wasting disease
- Werdnig-Hoffmann disease
- Wernicke's disease
- Whipple's disease
- whirling disease
- white line disease
- white-spot disease
- winter vomiting disease
- Wolman disease
- X-disease
- yellow fat disease
- yuppie disease
- Yusho disease
- Zika disease
- zombie deer disease
- Zuska-Atkins disease
- Zuska's disease
Translations[edit]
an abnormal condition of the body causing discomfort or dysfunction
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Verb[edit]
disease (third-person singular simple present diseases, present participle diseasing, simple past and past participle diseased)
- (obsolete) To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.
- 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke viij:[49], folio lxxxix, recto:
- Whyll he yett ſpeake
there cam won from the rulers off the ſynagogis houſſe
which ſayde to hym: Thy doughter is deed
diſeaſe not the maſter.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 208:
- […] mote he ſoft himſelfe appeaſe,
And fairely fare on foot, how euer loth;
His double burden did him ſore diſeaſe.
- To infect with a disease.
References[edit]
- disease at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “disease”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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