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Disease

Definition: Disease

Disease

Noun

1. An impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "disease" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)


Specialty Definitions: Disease

DomainDefinitions

Dream Interpretation

To dream that you are diseased, denotes a slight attack of illness, or of unpleasant dealings with a relative.
For a young woman to dream that she is incurably diseased, denotes that she will be likely to lead a life of single blessedness. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Literature

Disease meaning discomfort, want of ease, mal aise, as
"In the world ye shall have disease." -Wyclif: John xvi. 33. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Specialty Definition: Disease

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In common usage, a disease is any abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort or dysfunction. Often used metaphorically for pathological conditions of other things, as in disease of society. Stricter medical usage sometimes distinguishes a disease, which has a known specific cause or causes (called its etiology), from a syndrome, which is a collection of symptoms that often occur together but for which there is no known cause. Also, many medical terms that describe symptoms are often called "diseases", especially when the cause of the symptom is unknown.

The largest and best-known category, infectious diseases are those caused by transmissible infectious agents such as bacteria, fungi, parasites, viruses, and prions. Closely related though not infectious diseases in the strictest sense are parasitic diseases caused by protozoa and worms. There are also genetic diseases caused by the presence or absence of genes in the affected person's DNA; toxic diseases caused by exposure to environmental toxins such as heavy metals; nutritional diseases caused by lack or deficiency in certain nutrients; conditions caused by injury, malformation, or disuse of parts of the body; autoimmune diseases caused by immune system attacks on the body's own tissue; diseases caused by the patient's own beliefs; and diseases causes by combinations of these, and of course totally unknown causes.

The World Health Organization publishes a comprehensive list of diseases known as International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD).

See also:

External links

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Disease."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Disease

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
CD DiseaseEnglishCurdy Dwarf DiseaseN/A
didEnglishDead of intercurrent diseaseMedicine

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Disease

Synonyms: illness, infirmity, malady, sickness. (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Disease

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Death

Euthanasia; break up of the system; natural death, natural decay; sudden death, violent death; untimely end, watery grave; debt of nature; suffocation, asphyxia; fatal disease. (disease); death blow. (killing).

Disease

Sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil; pimple, wen; (swelling); carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issue; rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore; cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor; caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus, sphacelation, leprosy; eruption, rash, breaking out.

Noun: disease; illness, sickness; Adjective: ailing; " all the ills that flesh is heir to "; morbidity, morbosity; infirmity, ailment, indisposition; complaint, disorder, malady; distemper, distemperature.

Martyr to disease; cripple; " the halt the lame and the blind"; valetudinary, valetudinarian; invalid, patient, case; sickroom, sick-chamber.

Lay by, lay up; take a disease, catch a disease; Noun: catch an infection; break out.

Fatal disease; (hopeless); dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard cough; general breaking up, break up of the system.

Remedy

Phr. aux grands maux les grands remedes; Dios que da la llaga da la medicina; para todo hay remedio sino para la muerte; temporis ars medicina fere est; " the remedy is worse than the disease "; " throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it ".

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Disease

English words defined with "disease": animal disease, autosomal dominant disease, autosomal recessive diseaseBang's disease, Banti's disease, Basedow's disease, black disease, black lung disease, blood disease, Bornholm disease, brain disease, Bronzed skin diseasecardiovascular disease, cat scratch disease, chestnut-bark disease, Chronic disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, communicable disease, congenital disease, contagious disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Cupid's diseasedeficiency disease, disease of the skin, Dutch elm diseaseendemic disease, epidemic disease, eye diseaseFermentation theory of disease, fibrocystic disease of the pancreas, Filth disease, Foot and mouth disease, foot-and-mouth disease, Functional diseasegenetic disease, green monkey diseaseHansen's disease, heart disease, hereditary disease, hoof-and-mouth disease, Hurler's disease, hyaline membrane diseaseidiopathic disease, industrial disease, infectious disease, inflammatory disease, inherited disease, Insidious diseaseJakob-Creutzfeldt diseaseKawasaki disease, kidney disease, kissing diseaseLegionnaire's disease, Lime disease spirochete, liver disease, loco disease, Lyme diseasemad cow disease, Marburg disease, Marburg-ebola disease, McArdle's disease, Meniere's disease, mental diseaseNavicular disease, Newcastle diseaseoccupational disease, Organic diseasePaget's disease, parrot disease, periodontal disease, Phosphorus disease, pink disease, pink disease fungus, plant disease, polycystic kidney disease, pullorum diseaserespiratory disease, rheumatic heart disease, rhizoctinia disease, rickettsial disease, ring diseasesclerotium disease, sexually transmitted disease, skin disease, social disease, Specific disease, Sporadic diseasevalvular heart disease, venereal disease, von Recklinghausen's diseaseWerdnig-Hoffman disease, wilt disease, Wool sorter's disease. (references)
Etymologies containing "disease": Angiopathy, Anthracnose, AscitesCholeraFarcymorbid, MorboseNosocomial, Nosography, Nosophobia, NosopoeticPathogenic, Pathognomonic, PituitetabesVermination. (references)

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Modern Usage: Disease

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure. (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

You see, the Argentinean has a disease called Narcolepsy (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce)

I should've known better than to hire somebody with a disease. (His Girl Friday; writing credit: Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur)

I live here my entire life, and I'm like a disease. (Sixteen Candles; writing credit: John Hughes)

You treat a disease, you win, you lose. (Patch Adams; writing credit: Patch Adams; Maureen Mylander)

Lyrics

I got a disease. (Disease; performing artist: Matchbox 20)

And there are no guns, no bombs, and no disease, (From a Distance; performing artist: Bette Midler)

I ain't got a fever got a permanent disease (Bad Medicine; performing artist: Bon Jovi)

Everybody wanna come to me like it was some disease (Forgot About Dre; performing artist: Dr. dre)

Those who think difference is the child of disease (Believe; performing artist: Elton John)

Movie/TV Titles

Preventing the Spread of Disease (1940)

Losing It All: The Reality of Alzheimer's Disease (1991)

Leprosy: The Misunderstood Disease (1980)

Song Titles

Disease (performing artist: Matchbox 20)

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Commercial Usage: Disease

DomainTitle

References

  • Asthma Disease Management, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • The 2002 Official Patient's Sourcebook on Diabetes-Related Periodontal Disease (reference)

  • The Official Parent's Sourcebook on Refsum Disease (reference)

  • The 2002 Official Patient's Sourcebook on Lyme Disease (reference)

  • The Official Parent's Sourcebook on Batten Disease (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • The Treatment of Disease in TCM, Vol. 5: Diseases of the Chest, Abdomen & Rib-side (reference)

  • Alpha Lipoic Acid Breakthrough: The Superb Antioxidant That May Slow Aging, Repair Liver Damage, and Reduce the Risk of Cancer, Heart Disease, and Diabetes (reference)

  • Mayo Clinic on Alzheimer's Disease (reference)

  • Acth & Lph in Health & Disease (reference)

  • Parkinson's disease; rigidity, akinesia, behavior Proceedings (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  • American Pseudo-Obstruction & Hirschsprungs Disease Society Membership (reference)

  • Canadian Society For Metabolic Disease Membership (reference)

  • Chronic Disease Notes & Reports (reference)

  • Congestive Heart Failure - The Disease State Management Resource (reference)

  • Disease Management Advisor (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Tease Sleaze & Social Disease (reference)

  • Nova - Killer Disease on Campus - Meningitis (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Disease

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Photo Album: Disease

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A 10 year-old white girl is pictured here with her father in a swimming pool. She was diagnosed at age three with a form of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) that did not respond to therapy. She is presently in long-term remission after an experimental bone marrow transplant was performed. She now suffers from chronic GVH (Graft Versus Host Disease) which is rare. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Mammogram showing thickenings typical of fibrocystic disease. Also seen are ductal patterns. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Map showing incidence of H. influenzae non-type b invasive disease among children <5 years of age, per 100,000 population, United States, 1996. Credit: CDC.

Line graph showing incidence of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and non-type b invasive disease, per 100,000 population, United States, 1989-1996. Credit: CDC.

Commander Richard Wainwright 1817-1862 Brother-in-law of Alexander Dallas Bache Served many years on Coast Survey Died from disease on Mississippi River in 1862. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve A deer tick - Ixodes dammini - is quite abundant on Prudence Island. These small creatures can be quite dangerous to humans as they are carriers of Lyme disease. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Foot and Mouth Disease Symptoms. Credit: USDA.

Veterinary pathologist Norman Cheville (left), molecular biologist Shirley Halling, and National Animal Disease Center director Harley Moon analyze DNA sequence reactions of a vaccine made from a modified Brucella abortus bacterium. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller..

ARS plant pathologist Scott Abney (left) and research assistant Tom Richards check the growth of soybeans inoculated with field isolates of Phytophthora sojae. Disease reactions involving specific genes help identify the 45 races of P. sojae that have been reported in the United States. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

DNA research may lead to ways eye disease can be prevented, delayed, and treated. Credit: National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Disease

AuthorQuotation

Abraham Cowley

Life is an incurable disease.

Alexander Hamilton

Our real disease -- which is Democracy.

Ben Johnson

Talking is the disease of age.

Francis Bacon

Cure the disease and kill the patient.

Heraclitus

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

Hosea Ballou

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Jean Racine

Without money honor is merely a disease.

Publilius Syrus

Some remedies are worse than the disease.

Seneca

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Disease

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

In this connection, the special necessities of the regions devastated during the war of 1914-1918 shall be borne in mind; (f) will endeavour to take steps in matters of international concern for the prevention and control of disease. (reference)

John F. Kennedy

1961

Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce. (reference)

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Use in Literature: Disease

TitleAuthorQuote

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Carroll, Lewis

Suppose you discover a remedy for some disease hitherto supposed to be incurable.

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Many men have thus a secret monster, a disease which they feed, a dragon which gnaws them, a despair which inhabits their night.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Canker is a disease of plants, Cancer one of animals.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

And there are the men of chemistry who spray the trees against pests, who sulphur the grapes, who cut out disease and rots, mildews and sicknesses.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Disease

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Alcoholic liver disease. (references)

AD is a progressive disease. (references)

Coronary artery heart disease. (references)

Business

Cancer is a disease of great social and scientific concern in Argentina. (references)

However, the burden of oral disease has become concentrated in a minority of children. (references)

There is a constant need for diagnostic systems and equipment for heart disease, cancer and apparatus for intensive care units. (references)

Children

Morocco

Persons with Disabilities A high incidence of disabling disease, especially polio, has resulted in a correspondingly high number of persons with disabilities. (references)

Cape Verde

The Government also seeks to reduce infant mortality and disease, combat drug and alcohol abuse, and discourage teenage pregnancy; however, progress continued to be slow. (references)

Korea

In 1997 a senior UNICEF official said that approximately 80,000 children in North Korea were in immediate danger of dying from hunger and disease; 800,000 more were suffering from malnutrition to a serious but lesser degree. (references)

Civil Liberties

Tanzania

Refugee camps in the west were plagued by food shortages and outbreaks of disease during the year. (references)

Slovenia

Limitations on these rights may be made only by statute and only where necessary in criminal cases, to control infectious disease, or in wartime. (references)

Argentina

In Santa Rosa, on February 17, four bullets were fired into the home of Edgardo Soto, who had been reporting on the foot and mouth disease outbreak and the debts of a local meat company. (references)

Economic History

Cambodia

Thousands starved or died of disease during the evacuation. (references)

Georgia

Livestock production is beginning to rebound, although it faces periodic disease. (references)

New Zealand

During this period, many Maori died from disease and warfare, much of it intertribal. (references)

Human Rights

Turkmenistan

Disease, particularly tuberculosis, was rampant. (references)

Kenya

Disease is widespread in prisons, and the death rate is high. (references)

Egypt

Such conditions contribute to the spread of disease and epidemics. (references)

Indigenous People

Argentina

Indigenous persons have higher rates of illiteracy, chronic disease, and unemployment. (references)

Brazil

Nonindigenous invaders destroy the environment and wildlife, spread disease, and provoke violent confrontations. (references)

Ecuador

Land is scarce in the more heavily populated highland areas, where high infant mortality, malnutrition, and epidemic disease are common. (references)

Minorities

Czech Republic

Roma suffer disproportionately from poverty, unemployment, interethnic violence, discrimination, illiteracy, and disease. (references)

Political Economy

Nigeria

A significant percentage of the country's population live in poverty and are subject to malnutrition and disease. (references)

THE BAHAMAS

The Ministry continues to enforce its ban on imports of citrus plants and fruit from Florida, instated in 1995 because of reported outbreaks of canker disease. (references)

Trade

Bangladesh

All plants and plant materials for export must be inspected and certified that they are free of insects or disease. (references)

Syria

In response to recent foot and mouth disease epidemic, animal products may not be imported from or transit countries that have outbreaks of the disease. (references)

Kenya

Cats and dogs are issued with an import license only after a veterinary surgeon has certified the animal to have been vaccinated against rabies and has no symptoms of any contagious disease. (references)

Travel

Yemen

Immunization requirements can be obtained through the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. (references)

Spain

The Center for Disease Control's international travelers' hotline can provide further information on health matters: (404) 332-4559. (references)

Israel

The international traveler's hotline at the Center for Disease Control, telephone (404) 332-4559, has additional health information. (references)

Women

Nicaragua

Corinto is unusual in that prostitutes receive medical examinations and a card certifying their health if they are free of disease. (references)

Dominican Republic

NGO's have ongoing HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted disease prevention programs for male and female prostitutes, hotel and industrial zone workers, and other high-risk groups. (references)

China

The increased commercialization of sex and related trafficking in women has trapped thousands of women in a cycle of crime and exploitation, and left them vulnerable to disease and abuse. (references)

Worker Rights

China

Ten of the workers already have died from silicosis and the rest have contracted the disease. (references)

Saudi Arabia

Labor regulations require employers to protect most workers from job-related hazards and disease. (references)

Paraguay

Many of the children who work on the streets suffer from malnutrition, lack of access to education, and disease. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Disease

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Andrew Weil

It's a powerful anti-oxidant. It helps to treat diabetes, extends survival of breast cancer. Great protective against gum disease, good general anti-oxidant protection.

Jerry Lewis

Well, if you have pulmonary fibrosis, it could be fatal. It's a very dangerous disease. Your lungs go bad and breathing becomes a problem.

Michael J. Fox

I'm one of a million involuntary experts on Parkinson's Disease in the United States, battling its destructive nature as we wait for a cure. We need a rescue and the country should know it. I'm also here because I'm a guy with PD who happens to be on TV.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Disease

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Grover Cleveland

1885-1889; 1893-1897The strong man who in the confidence of sturdy health courts the sternest activities of life and rejoices in the hardihood of constant labor may still have lurking near his vitals the unheeded disease that dooms him to sudden collapse.

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969In addition, regional medical centers can provide the most advanced diagnosis and treatment for heart disease and cancer and stroke and other major diseases.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989We will carry on the tradition of a good and worthy people who have brought light where there was darkness, warmth where there was cold, medicine where there was disease, food where there was hunger, and peace where there was only bloodshed.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001I also want to say that America must help more nations to break the bonds of disease.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Disease

"Disease" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Disease" is used about 8,896 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%8,8961,075

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Disease

CountryName
USA

Asthma Disease Management, Inc.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Disease

Expressions using "disease": Aber disease Acute Disease Addison disease addisons disease Addison's disease Albright disease Albright's disease Aleutian Mink Disease Aleutian Mink Disease Virus Alzheimer Disease alzheimer's disease animal disease Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease aphta disease Armillaria root disease Atherosclerosis and Heart Disease Prevention Aujeszky disease Aujeszky's disease Australian winter disease autoimmune disease autosomal dominant disease autosomal recessive disease Bang disease Bang's disease Banti's disease Bartter's Disease baryta miner's disease Basal Ganglia Cerebrovascular Disease Basedow's disease be affected with disease Benson's disease Berlin disease Berlin's disease beryllium disease Best disease Best's disease bird breeder's disease bird fancier's disease black disease black disease of sheep black lung disease bleeder's disease blister disease blood disease blue disease blue ear disease Border Disease border disease of sheep Border Disease Virus Borna disease Borna Disease Virus Bornholm disease Bosin's disease Bourneville's disease bovine respiratory disease bovine respiratory disease complex Bovine Virus Diarrhea-Mucosal Disease Bowen disease Bowen's disease brain disease bright's disease Brinton's disease Bronzed skin disease Buerger's disease Buss disease C Programmer's Disease caisson disease Canavan Disease Carbamoyl-Phosphate Synthase I Deficiency Disease Carcinoid Heart Disease cardiac disease Cardiovascular disease Caroli's Disease Castleman's disease cat scratch disease Cat-Scratch Disease causative agent of disease cause of the disease Celiac Disease center for Disease Control Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) Chagas Disease Chagas' disease channel catfish virus disease Charcot disease Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Cholesterol Ester Storage Disease Christian's disease Christiansen disease Christmas disease chronic beryllium disease chronic disease chronic granulomatous disease Chronic obstructive lung disease chronic obstructive pulmonary disease collagen disease communicable disease Communicable Disease Control compressed air disease congenital disease consultant in communicable disease control. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "disease": disease-anemia, disease-bearing, disease-carriers, disease-carrying, disease-causing, disease-causing agent, disease-forecasting, disease-free, disease-free survival, disease-incidence, disease-infected, disease-odds, disease-of-the-month, disease-producing, disease-prone, disease-provoking, disease-resistant, disease-ridden, disease-specific, disease-specific survival, disease-trap, disease-vulnerable.

Ending with "disease": hla-disease.

Containing "disease": Lyme-disease-carrying.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Disease

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

lyme disease

6,717

infectious disease

829

disease

6,460

eye disease

816

fifth disease

2,809

lou gehrigs disease

783

crohns disease

2,800

menieres disease

773

center for disease control

2,722

lime disease

763

sexually transmitted disease

2,556

gum disease

763

parkinsons disease

2,431

huntingtons disease

729

heart disease

2,356

addisons disease

706

grave disease

1,937

lung disease

700

liver disease

1,779

cushings disease

643

mad cow disease

1,568

chrons disease

610

alzheimers disease

1,318

gall bladder disease

600

skin disease

1,301

autoimmune disease

534

kidney disease

1,098

chrones disease

503

celiac disease

1,072

crones disease

490

thyroid disease

1,056

acid reflux disease

478

pagets disease

896

dog disease

448

hodgkins disease

847

parkinson disease

447

lyme disease symptom

835

tree disease

439

hand foot mouth disease

835

pelvic inflammatory disease

435
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Modern Translation: Disease

Language Translations for "disease"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

siekte (ailment, illness), kwaal (ailment, illness). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

dobësi (adynamia, anaemia, anemia, debility, delicacy, failing, feebleness, flabbiness, flaccidity, fragility, frailty, goneness, impotence, impotency, inanimation, inanition, inanity, infirmity, labefaction, languish, languor, laxness, leanness, limpness, malady, marasmus, reaction, sinking, tabescence, tenuity, vulnerability, washiness, weakness), sëmundje (affection, ailment, canker, complaint, disorder, distemper, evil, ill, illness, infirmity, sickness). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مرض (ail, ailment, be ill, become ill, complaint, fall ill, fall sick, favorable, favourable, get ill, illness, infirmity, mal, malady, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pox, satisfactory, satisfying, sicken, sickness, take ill, trouble), ‏سقم (ailment, be ill, illness, infirmity, malady, morbidness, sicken, sickliness, sickness), ‏علة مرض (malady), ‏علة سبب (cause, malady), ‏المرض (valetudinarianism), ‏إعتلال في الصحة, ‏داء (ailment, illness, malady). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

страдание (affliction, hardship, infliction, malady, misery, pain, sufferance, suffering), болест (affection, ailment, blast, distemper, illness, malady, sickness, trouble). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

malaltia (ailment, illness). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

疾病 (ailment, sickness). (various references)

   

Czech

  

nemoc (complaint, illness, malady, sickness, trouble), choroba (illness, sickness). (various references)

   

Danish

  

sygdom (ailment, illness). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ziekte (ailment, illness), kwaal (ailment, illness), aandoening (affection, ailment, emotion, illness). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

malsano (illness). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

sjúka (ailment, illness). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مرض (Malady), ناخوشی (Malady, Metastasis), علت (Cause, Motive, Reason, Trill), دچارعلت کردن . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tauti (complaint, disorder, illness, malady, sickness), sairaus (illness, sickness). (various references)

   

French

  

maladie. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

sykte (ailment, illness). (various references)

   

German

  

erkrankung (affection, ailment, illness, sickness), krankheit (affection, ailment, complaint, illness, malady, sickness, unsoundness). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αρρώστια (ailment, illness, malady, sickness). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מחל" (distemper, illness, infirmity, malady, sickness), מכאוב (ache, affliction, ail, grief, pain, trouble), חולי (ailment, illness, malady, sickness, suffering). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

betegség (ail, ailment, complaint, distemper, evil, illness, malady, malaise, morbidity, sickness, trouble), kór. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

penyakit (ailment, bout, malady). (various references)

   

Italian

  

malattia (ailment, complaint, diesease, illness, malady, sickness, trouble), morbo (epidemic, illness), male (ache, Amiss, bad, badly, evil, harm, hurt, ill, illness, misfortune, not well, pain, poorly, sickness, trouble, wrong, wrongly). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

疾病 (illness), 疾患 (ailment), (illness). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しっぺい (bamboo stick used to strike meditators into greater wakefulness, illness), しっか" (ailment, fall, feel of a material, surrender), びょうま (demon of ill health), びょうか" (sickness), びょうき (illness, sickness), やまい (illness). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

질환. (various references)

   

Malay

  

penyakit (ailment, illness). (various references)

   

Manx

  

gorley (festering, malady), doghaney (distemper, infect), doghan (ailment, bug, disorder, infection, sickness), chingys (disorder, illness, stroke), asslaynt (disorder, illness, infirmity). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

sykdom (ailment, illness). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

malesa (ailment, illness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iseaseday

   

Polish

  

choroba (ailment, illness). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

doença (ailment, disorder, distemper, ill, illness, infirmity, malady, sickness, trouble). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

zãcare, morb (monomania), meteahnã (defect, hobby, sin, trouble, weakness), boalã (affection, ailment, complaint, disorder, illness, lurgy, malady, sickness, trouble), afecţiune (affection, affections, attachment, dearness, fondness, inclination, passions, sympathy, tenderness, trouble). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

болезнь (affection, ailment, evil, illness, malady, sickness, trouble). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

tinneas (sickness), galar (a disease), eucail (disease: an+ cáil, infirmity). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

bolest (illness, malady, sickness). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

enfermedad (affliction, ailment, complaint, disorder, epidemic, feverweed, flu, illness, infirmity, influenza, malady, sickness, trouble). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

siki (ailment, ill, illness, sick, unwell). (