disease

See also: dis-ease

English

Etymology

From Middle English disese, from Anglo-Norman desese, disaise, from Old French desaise, from des- + aise. 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).

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈziːz/
  • (US) enPR: dĭ-zēzʹ, IPA(key): /dɪˈziz/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːz

Noun

disease (countable and uncountable, plural diseases)

  1. (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.
    • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
      Diseases desperate grown, / By desperate appliances are relieved.
    • (Can we date this quote?) James Madison, Jr.
      The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public counsels have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere 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:
      “[…] 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.
  2. (by extension) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
    • N.N., 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.
  3. Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Edmund Spenser
      So all that night they passed in great disease.
    • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
      to shield thee from diseases of the world

Synonyms

Derived terms
Terms derived from disease - eponyms
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

Translations
an abnormal condition of the body causing discomfort or dysfunction

Verb

disease (third-person singular simple present diseases, present participle diseasing, simple past and past participle diseased)

  1. (obsolete) To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.
    • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke VIII:
      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 Queene, II.ii:
      mote he soft himselfe appease, / And fairely fare on foot, how euer loth; / His double burden did him sore disease.
  2. To infect with a disease.

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