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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).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
disease (countable and uncountable, plural diseases)
- (pathology) 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, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [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 1521052W:
- […] 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.
- 1955, The Urantia Book, Paper 134:6.7
- Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for VVilliam Ponsonby, OCLC 932900760, book VI, canto V, stanza 40, page 422:
- c. 1603–1606, [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 54196469, [Act I, scene i]:
- To ſhield thee from diſeaſes of the world, […]
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
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
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
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 762018299, 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, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto II, 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.
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