Sickness

Definition: Sickness

Sickness

Noun

1. Impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism.

2. The state that precedes vomiting.

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

Date "sickness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references)

Dream Interpretation

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

Synonyms: Sickness

Disease

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

Keep one's bed; feign sickness; (falsehood).

Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack.

Anthrax, bighead; blackleg, blackquarter; cattle plague, glanders, mange, scrapie, milk sickness; heartworm, feline leukemia, roundworms; quarter-evil, quarter-ill; rinderpest.

Weariness

Disgust, nausea, loathing, sickness; satiety; taedium vitae; (dejection); boredom, ennui.

Crosswords: Sickness

I don't feel the sickness yet, but it's in the post (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge)

Like a sickness and its cure together (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard)

Really. I was reading some figures from the Sickness and Accident Claims Division (The Apartment; writing credit: Billy Wilder ; I.A.L. Diamond)

This story is about a sickness, a spreading epidemic that threatens to destroy our very way of life (Teenage Doll; writing credit: Charles B. Griffith)

She's pregnant Phoebe, sickness is their way of life (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

Sleeping Sickness (1925)

Pa Feigns Sickness (1915)

Love Sickness at Sea (1913)

In Sickness and in Health (1992)

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

Books

• Progress in Human African Trypanosomiasis, Sleeping Sickness (reference)

• Sleeping Sickness and Other Parasitic Tropical Diseases (Epidemics) (reference)

• The Colonial Disease : A Social History of Sleeping Sickness in Northern Zaire, 1900-1940 (reference)

• God's Way to Ultimate Health: A Common Sense Guide for Elimination of Sickness Through Nutrition (reference)

• In Sickness & in Health: A Love Story (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Party of Five: Richer, Poorer, Sickness, and Health (reference)

• This Sweet Sickness (reference)

• This Sweet Sickness 2-Pk (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Survival Sickness (reference)

• The Sickness [Clean] (reference)

• The Sickness [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Hantaviruses that cause Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) are carried in rodent droppings, especially the deer mouse. Incubation lasts for 1�"5wks. Sickness begins with fever and muscle aches, followed by shortness of breath and coughing. Credit: CDC.

A patient being treated in a Sudanese hospital for sleeping sickness. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by D. Henrioud..

Victims of sleeping sickness in an institution in the French Cameroons. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Pierre Pittet..

The ravages of sleeping sickness ... / WHO photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The Sweating Sickness;. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Seems to be a case of sleeping sickness. Credit: Library of Congress.

Colonial empire: African dresser giving bare-breasted girl, who was found to be infected with sleeping sickness, an injection. Credit: Library of Congress.

Elixir feminae partens or, Mothers remedy for morning sickness ... prepared by Thos. S. Yard & Co., New York. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sickness and health. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Whereas the League of Nations has for its object the establishment of universal peace, and such a peace can be established only if it is based upon social justice; And whereas conditions of labour exist involving such injustice, hardship, and privation to large numbers of people as to produce unrest so great that the peace and harmony of the world are imperilled; and an improvement of those conditions is urgently required: as, for example, by the regulation of the hours of work, including the establishment of a maximum working day and week, the regulation of the labour supply, the prevention of unemployment, the provision of an adequate living wage, the protection of the worker against sickness, disease and injury arising out of his employment, the protection of children, young persons and women, provision for old age and injury, protection of the interests of workers when employed in countries other than their own recognition of the principle of freedom of association, the organisation of vocational and technical education and other measures; Whereas also the failure of any nation to adopt humane conditions of labour is an obstacle in the way of other nations which desire to improve the conditions in their own countries; The HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES, moved by sentiments of justice and humanity as well as by the desire to secure the permanent peace of the world, agree to the following: CHAPTER l. (reference)

Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. (reference)

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My child will not die with that frightful sickness for lack of aid.

And a faint sickness sighed in his heart

Then the sickness came, pneumonia, and measles that went to the eyes and to the mastoids

The King, Queen, and all the court, sent every day to inquire after my health, and her Majesty made me several visits during my sickness.

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Health

A virus is a germ that causes sickness. (references)

The economic impact of travelers' diarrhea (TD) is substantial, because fear of sickness is one of the major deterrents to tourism. (references)

There are two types of African trypanosomiasis, also called sleeping sickness, named for the areas in Africa in which they are found. (references)

Children

Venezuela

According to CECODAP's 2000 study, an estimated 500,000 children, most under the age of 5, have an average of 2 episodes of gastroenteritis a year, a sickness that is the ninth leading cause of death in the country. (references)

Economic History

Slovak Rep

Employees pay an additional 1.4-percent of salary to the sickness fund and 6.4 percent to the pension fund. (references)

Luxembourg

Luxembourg's comprehensive social security package is composed of five major elements: sickness and maternity, retirement, family allowances, accidents, and unemployment. (references)

Political Economy

CANADA

Life insurance companies are not generally allowed to offer other services (except for health, accident and sickness insurance), but may be affiliated with, and distribute the products of, a property and casualty insurer. (references)

Travel

Cote D'ivoire

Several U.S.-based companies provide very reasonably priced accident, sickness, and liability insurance. (references)

Worker Rights

Qatar

Workers who suffer work-related sickness or injuries receive free medical treatment provided by the Government. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Mourning of sickness

Sickness

Sickness

Expressions using "sickness": Aerial sickness ♦ African Horse Sickness ♦ African Horse Sickness Virus ♦ African sleeping sickness ♦ air sickness ♦ Altitude Sickness ♦ bed of sickness ♦ bottle sickness ♦ brain sickness ♦ bush sickness or Boschziekte ♦ caisson sickness ♦ canal sickness ♦ car sickness ♦ chronic mountain sickness ♦ Claw sickness ♦ decompression sickness ♦ diver's sickness ♦ Falling sickness ♦ feign sickness ♦ flying sickness ♦ Gall sickness ♦ Green sickness ♦ Heart sickness ♦ iron sickness ♦ Milk Sickness ♦ Monday morning sickness ♦ Morning Sickness ♦ motion sickness ♦ motion sickness incidence ♦ mountain sickness ♦ ozone sickness ♦ radiation sickness ♦ sea sickness ♦ Serum Sickness ♦ severe sickness ♦ sickness absence ♦ sickness benefit ♦ Sickness Impact Profile ♦ sickness insurance ♦ sickness table ♦ sleeping sickness ♦ sleepy sickness ♦ Space Motion Sickness ♦ space sickness ♦ Sweating Sickness ♦ travel sickness ♦ veld sickness. Additional references.

Ending with "sickness": air-sickness, green-sickness, horse-sickness, Love-sickness, morning-sickness, motion-sickness, parrot-sickness, sea-sickness, travel-sickness.

Albanian

sëmundje (affection, ailment, canker, complaint, disease, disorder, distemper, evil, ill, illness, infirmity), të vjella (vomit, vomiting). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مرض (ail, ailment, be ill, become ill, complaint, disease, fall ill, fall sick, favorable, favourable, get ill, illness, infirmity, mal, malady, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pox, satisfactory, satisfying, sicken, take ill, trouble), ‏غثيان (disgust, nausea, qualm, queasiness, squeamishness), ‏سقم (ailment, be ill, disease, illness, infirmity, malady, morbidness, sicken, sickliness), ‏إعتلال (ailment, impairment, morbidness). (various references)

Bulgarian 

гадене (nausea, qualm, queasiness, queerness, retch, retching), болест (affection, ailment, blast, disease, distemper, illness, malady, trouble), боледуване (illness), повръщане (nausea, puke, vomiting). (various references)

Chinese 

疾病 (ailment, disease), 疾 (disease, envy, hate), 病 (ailment, defect, disease, fall ill, illness, sick), 瘼 (distress), 恙 , �"悴. (various references)

Czech

zvracení (vomit), nemoc (complaint, disease, illness, malady, trouble), choroba (disease, illness). (various references)

Danish

sygeforsikring (health insurance, sickness insurance), søsyge (seasickness), sygedagpenge (sickness benefit is the generic term which encompasses both SSP benefits and sickness compensation, statutory sick pay, the latter being payable when the illness is the fault of the employer), sygelighedstabel (morbidity table, sickness table), sygeordning (sickness scheme), serumsygdom (Pirquet serum disease, serum sickness), dengue (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, dengue, saddle back fever, three-day sickness), dengue-feber (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, dengue, dengue-fever, saddle back fever, three-day sickness), attest om ret til naturalydelser ved sygdom og moderskab,for så vidt angår personer bosat i et andet land end det kompetente land (certificate of entitlement to sickness and maternity insurance benefits for persons residing in a country other than the competent country), dykkersyge (aeroembolism, bends, caisson disease, caisson sickness, compressed air disease, compressed air illness, decompression disease, decompression illness, decompression sickness, diver's sickness, ebullism), blanket E112 (certificate concerning the retention of the right to sickness or maternity benefits currently being provided), flaskesyge (bottle sickness), dekompressionssyge (decompression disease, decompression sickness), cowdriose (bush sickness or Boschziekte, Cowdria ruminantium infection, cowdriosis, heartwater, inapunga, veld sickness), calentura roja (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, dengue, saddle back fever, three-day sickness), caisson-sygdom (aeroembolism, caisson disease, caisson sickness, compressed air disease, compressed air illness, decompression illness, decompression sickness, ebullism), blanket E106 (certificate of entitlement to sickness and maternity insurance benefits for persons residing in a country other than the competent country), fortsat loenudbetaling i sygdomstilfaelde (continued wage payment in the case of sickness), bjergsygdom (altitude sickness, mountain sickness), kronisk bjergsygdom (chronic mountain sickness, Monge's disease), attest om fortsat modtagelse af ydelser fra syge-og moderskabsforsikringen (certificate concerning the retention of the right to sickness or maternity benefits currently being provided), anaplasmose (Anaplasma infection, anaplasmosis, gall sickness, gallsickness), allotriofagi (allotriophagy, licking sickness, pica), afrikansk trypanosis (African lethargy, African sleeping sickness, african trypanosomiasis, Congo trypanosomiasis, sleeping sickness), afrikansk hestedød (African horse sickness, African horse-sickness, equine plague), bjergsyge (altitude sickness, mountain sickness), mandagssyge (Monday feeling, Monday morning sickness), vosk (bush sickness, coast disease, lake shore disease, salt sick disease), trykfaldssyge (decompression disease, decompression sickness), transportsygeincidens (motion sickness incidence), transportsyge (car-sickness, kinetosis, motion sickness), rumsyge (space sickness), refusioner i forbindelse med en privat sygeforsikring tegnet af en privat person til fordel for ham selv eller hans familie (reimbursement under a private contract of sickness insurance taken out by an individual in favour of himself or his family), pica (allotriophagy, licking sickness, pica, twelve-point), naupati (sea sickness), køresyge (car sickness, car-sickness), Monday feeling (Monday feeling, Monday fever, Monday morning asthma, Monday morning sickness, Monday syndrome, Monday tightness), hestepest (African horse sickness, African horse-sickness, equine plague), mandagskoldfeber (Monday feeling, Monday morning sickness), mandagshovedpine (Monday feeling, Monday headache, Monday morning sickness), mandagsfeber (Monday feeling, Monday morning sickness), luftsyge (air sickness), wosk (bush sickness, coast disease, lake shore disease, salt sick disease), koboltmangel (bush sickness, coast disease, lake shore disease, salt sick disease), African horse sickness (African horse sickness, African horse-sickness, equine plague), individuel ulykkes-og sygeforsikring (personal accident and sickness insurance), Monge's disease (chronic mountain sickness, Monge's disease). (various references)

Dutch

serumziekte (Pirquet serum disease, serum sickness), incidentie van de kinetose (motion sickness incidence), hoogteziekte (altitude sickness, mountain sickness), galziekte (Anaplasma infection, anaplasmosis, gall sickness, gallsickness), formulier E112 (certificate concerning the retention of the right to sickness or maternity benefits currently being provided), formulier E106 (certificate of entitlement to sickness and maternity insurance benefits for persons residing in a country other than the competent country), flesziekte (bottle sickness), dysbarisme (aeroembolism, caisson disease, caisson sickness, compressed air disease, compressed air illness, decompression illness, decompression sickness, ebullism), denguekoorts (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, dengue, saddle back fever, three-day sickness), dengue (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, dengue, saddle back fever, three-day sickness), Afrikaanse paardenpest (African horse sickness, African horse-sickness, equine plague), chronische bergziekte (chronic mountain sickness, Monge's disease), kinetosis (kinetosis, motion sickness), caissonziekte (bends, caisson disease, decompression disease, decompression sickness, diver's sickness), bush sickness (bush sickness, coast disease, lake shore disease, salt sick disease), bewegingsziekte (kinetosis, motion sickness), bergziekte (altitude sickness, mountain sickness), arbeidsongeschikt (disabled, unfit for work), anaplasmosis (Anaplasma infection, anaplasmosis, gall sickness, gallsickness), anaplasmose (Anaplasma infection, anaplasmosis, gall sickness, gallsickness), allotriophagia (allotriophagy, licking sickness, pica), allotriofagie (allotriophagy, licking sickness, pica), afrikaanse slaapziekte (African lethargy, African sleeping sickness, african trypanosomiasis, Congo trypanosomiasis, sleeping sickness), cowdriose (bush sickness or Boschziekte, Cowdria ruminantium infection, cowdriosis, heartwater, inapunga, veld sickness), ruimteziekte (space sickness), ziektetafel (morbidity table, sickness table), ziekte-en ongevallenverzekering (accident and sickness insurance), ziekte van Monge (chronic mountain sickness, Monge's disease), ziekengeld (sickness benefit is the generic term which encompasses both SSP benefits and sickness compensation, statutory sick pay, the latter being payable when the illness is the fault of the employer), zeeziekte (seasickness), wagenziekte (car sickness, car-sickness), vijfdaagse koorts (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, dengue, saddle back fever, three-day sickness), verklaring betreffende het recht op verstrekkingen wegens ziekte en moederschap van verzekerden die in een ander dan het bevoegde land wonen (certificate of entitlement to sickness and maternity insurance benefits for persons residing in a country other than the competent country), verklaring betreffende het behoud van het recht op lopende verstrekkingen van de ziekte-en moederschapsverzekering (certificate concerning the retention of the right to sickness or maternity benefits currently being provided), individuele ongevallen-en ziekteverzekering (personal accident and sickness insurance), terugbetalingen ter uitvoering van particuliere ziekteverzekeringen die door particulieren ten eigen behoeve of ten behoeve van hun gezin zijn afgesloten (reimbursement under a private contract of sickness insurance taken out by an individual in favour of himself or his family), kinetose (kinetosis, motion sickness), pica (allotriophagy, licking sickness, pica), paardepest (African horse sickness, African horse-sickness, equine plague), paardenpest (African horse sickness, African horse-sickness, equine plague), maandagmorgenziekte (Monday feeling, Monday morning sickness), luchtziekte t.g.v.coriolisprikkeling (canal sickness), luchtziekte (airsickness), likzucht (allotriophagy, licking sickness, pica), knokkelkoorts (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, dengue, saddle back fever, three-day sickness), ziekteverzekering (health insurance, sickness insurance, sickness scheme), uitkering ingevolge de Ziektewet (sickness benefit is the generic term which encompasses both SSP benefits and sickness compensation, statutory sick pay, the latter being payable when the illness is the fault of the employer). (various references)

Finnish

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

French

nausée, maladie. (various references)

German

Krankheit (affection, ailment, complaint, disease, illness, malady, unsoundness), übelkeit (morning sickness, nausea, qualm, queasiness, rankness, squeamishness, undesirability). (various references)

Greek 

αρρώστια (ailment, disease, illness, malady), ασθένεια (ailment, complaint, disease, illness, infirmity, malady, puniness), αδιαθεσία (ailment, distemper, indisposition, malaise, sickliness). (various references)

Hebrew 

מחל�" (disease, distemper, illness, infirmity, malady), חולי (ailment, disease, illness, malady, suffering), �"וי (illness, sad, sick, sorrow, sorrowful), בחיל�" (disgust, fulsomeness, nausea, noisomemess, queasiness, revulsion). (various references)

Hungarian

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

Indonesian

kesakitan (be ill, hardship, illness, in pain). (various references)

Italian

malattia (ailment, complaint, diesease, disease, illness, malady, trouble). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

障り (bad effect, harm, hindrance, obstacle), 病気　 (disease, illness), 病気 (disease, illness), 病患 (disease), 患い (illness), 不例 (indisposition). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

びょうか�" (disease), びょうき (disease, illness), さわり (bad effect, feel, harm, hindrance, impression, most impressive passage, obstacle, punch line, touch), ふれい (indisposition, official announcement, proclamation), わずらい (agony, illness, vexation, worry). (various references)

Korean 

병 (Bottle, illness, morbid). (various references)

Manx

doghan (ailment, bug, disease, disorder, infection). (various references)

Pig Latin

icknesssay.(various references)

Portuguese

moléstia (disease), mal (badly, bale, barely, blight, evil, hardly, harm, hurt, ill, ill-treat, just, little, malady, scarcely, teen, teener, wrong, wrongdoing), enfermidade (colorwash, colourwash, complaint, disease, disorder, distemper, ill, illness), doença (ailment, disease, disorder, distemper, illness, malady, trouble). (various references)

Romanian

rãu (Amiss, atrocious, awkward, awry, bad, bad for, bad-hearted, badly, baleful, black, bum, corrupt, depraved, evil, flagitious, foul, haggish, harm, ill, immoral, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malicious, malign, mischief, mischievous, miserable, naughty, perverse, rough, scoundrel, thin, unspeakable, useless, venomous, vicious, vile, wicked, wretched, wrong), maladie (illness), greaţã (abhorrence, aversion, disgust, dislike, nausea, nauseousness, queasiness, repugnance), boalã (affection, ailment, complaint, disease, disorder, illness, lurgy, malady, trouble). (various references)

Russian 

тошнота (nausea, qualmishness, queasiness), болезнь;тошнота, болезнь (affection, ailment, disease, evil, illness, malady, trouble). (various references)

Scottish

tinneas (disease), teinn (calamity, distress, straits), anacair. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

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

Spanish

náuseas (queasiness), mareo (airsickness, dizziness, giddiness, qualm, seasickness), enfermedad (affliction, ailment, complaint, disease, disorder, epidemic, feverweed, flu, illness, infirmity, influenza, malady, trouble). (various references)

Swedish

sjukdom (affection, ailment, disease, illness, ilness, malady), kväljningar (nausea, qualm, qualmishness, queasiness), illamående (nausea, qualm, sick, unwell). (various references)

Thai

ความเจ็บป่วย. (various references)

Turkish

mide bulantısı (nausea, nauseation, qualm, queasiness), kusma (puke, spew, throwing up, vomit, vomiting), hastalık (affection, ailment, bad blood, disease, distemper, ill, illness, infirmity, invalidism, invalidity, malady, patho-), bulantı (nausea, nauseation, qualm, queasiness). (various references)

Turkmen 

яarawsyzlyk (morbidity, painfulness), hassalyk (disease, illness), emgek (illness), зyrзyk. (various references)

Ukrainian

хвороба (affection, affliction, ail, ailment, cause, disease, disorder, illness, malady, sick), відраза (abhorrence, antipathy, aversion, disgust, execration, revulsion), нудота (aridity, aridness, distaste, nausea, qualm, queasiness, wamble). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự nôn mửa (puke), sự đau yếu (illness), bệnh hoạn bệnh sự bu�"n nôn. (various references)

Welsh

cyfog, anhwyldeb (ailment, complaint, disorder), anhwyl. (various references)

aegretudo, aegretudo egretudo, aegretudo, egretudo, aegrotatio egrotatio, aegrotatione, aegrotationum, anaplasmosis, coenuriasis, coenurosis, culpa, culpae, culpam, infirmitas, infirmitate, infirmitatem, infirmitates, infirmitatibus, infirmitatis, morbus, nosogenum:Taenia coenurus,Coenurus cerebralis. (various references)

axtica. (various references)

adl. (various references)

maladie. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "sickness": sicknesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "sickness": airsickness, carsickness, greensickness, heartsickness, homesickness, lovesickness, seasickness. (additional references)

Words containing "sickness": airsicknesses, carsicknesses, greensicknesses, heartsicknesses, homesicknesses, lovesicknesses, seasicknesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sickness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sicinius, sickies, sickoes, sicnees, sissonnes, stickness, wicness. (additional references)