Definition of Disease

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Disease

Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.

An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder; -- applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc.

To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress.

To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; -- used almost exclusively in the participle diseased.

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Disease Quotations

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Mother Teresa

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
Buddha

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.
George Carlin

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
John F. Kennedy

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.
Andy Warhol

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Robert Frost

Love is a serious mental disease.
Plato

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
William Osler

Disease Translations

disease in Afrikaans is siekte, kwaal
disease in Danish is sygdom
disease in Dutch is ziekte, kwaal, aandoening
disease in French is maladie
disease in German is Erkrankung, Krankheit, Krankheit
disease in Italian is malattia
disease in Latin is morbus
disease in Norwegian is sykdom
disease in Spanish is enfermedad
disease in Swedish is sjukdom

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