disease
See also: dis-ease
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- (uneasiness): dis-ease
EtymologyEdit
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).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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, [...]
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
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)
- 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
- 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
TranslationsEdit
an abnormal condition of the body causing discomfort or dysfunction
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VerbEdit
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.