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- DictionaryDis·ease/dəˈzēz/
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- 1. a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that has a known cause and a distinctive group of symptoms, signs, or anatomical changes: "bacterial meningitis is a rare disease"
Sep 22, 2008 · Introduction. Doctors are called on to deal with many states of affairs. Not all of them, on any theory, are diseases. A doctor who prescribes contraceptives or performs an abortion, for example, is not treating a disease. Some women cannot risk pregnancy for health reasons, and historically both pregnancy and childbirth have been major killers.
Disease definition: a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.
B1. an illness caused by an infection or by a failure of health and not by an accident: heart disease. an infectious disease. Fewer examples. an incurable disease. Eating fatty food increases the risk of heart disease. The disease affects both humans and animals. As many as 6000 people may have been infected with the disease.
Disease can refer to a combination of signs and symptoms, phenomena associated with a disorder of function or structure or illness associated with a specific cause(s).2 There are, however, no universally accepted criteria for establishing ‘disease’.3–5 Indeed, the complexity of the concept of disease has led to the observation that it can ...
noun. dis· ease di-ˈzēz. Synonyms of disease. 1. : a condition of the living animal or plant body or of one of its parts that impairs normal functioning and is typically manifested by distinguishing signs and symptoms : sickness, malady. infectious diseases. a rare genetic disease. heart disease. 2.
Sep 27, 2020 · Lumen Learning. Contemporary Health Issues I (Lumen) 10: Diseases and Disorders. 10.1: Introduction to Diseases and Disorders. Expand/collapse global location. 10.1: Introduction to Diseases and Disorders. Page ID. Table of contents. Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases. Section Summary. People have illness and physicians diagnose and treat disease.
Aug 14, 2013 · Published: August 13, 2013 11:20pm EDT. We wanted to know about the people who decide where to draw the line between “normal” and “abnormal”, between healthy and diseased. Shutterstock.
