Disease

Introduction: Disease

Description of Disease

Disease: nosophobia, pathophobia.
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.

Disease: an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning.
Source: WordNet 2.1

Disease: A definite pathologic process with a characteristic set of signs and symptoms. It may affect the whole body or any of its parts, and its etiology, pathology, and prognosis may be known or unknown.
Source: MeSH 2007

Terms associated with Disease:

More specific terms for Disease:

• Syndrome

Source - MeSH 2007

• disease of the neuromuscular junction
• aspergillosis
• anthrax
• blackwater
• cat scratch disease
• complication
• crud
• endemic
• endemic disease
• enteropathy
• incompetence
• Kawasaki disease
• mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome
• pycnosis
• pyknosis
• Marseilles fever
• Kenya fever
• Indian tick fever
• boutonneuse fever
• Meniere's disease
• milk sickness
• mimesis
• occupational disease
• industrial disease
• onychosis
• rheumatism
• periarteritis nodosa
• polyarteritis nodosa
• periodontal disease
• periodontitis
• liver disease
• communicable disease
• exanthema subitum
• roseola infantum
• roseola infantilis
• pseudorubella
• respiratory disease
• respiratory illness
• respiratory disorder
• genetic disease
• genetic disorder
• genetic abnormality
• genetic defect
• congenital disease
• inherited disease
• inherited disorder
• hereditary disease
• hereditary condition
• inflammatory disease
• autoimmune disease
• autoimmune disorder
• deficiency disease
• fibrocystic breast disease
• fibrocystic disease of the breast
• cystic breast disease
• cystic mastitis
• goiter
• goitre
• struma
• thyromegaly
• sandfly fever
• pappataci fever
• phlebotomus
• skin disease
• disease of the skin
• skin disorder
• skin problem
• skin condition
• malignancy
• malignance
• eye disease
• animal disease
• plant disease
• ozena
• ozaena
• filariasis

Source - WordNet 2.1

Broader terms for Disease

• Pathologic Processes

Source - MeSH 2007

• illness
• unwellness
• malady
• sickness

Source - WordNet 2.1

Hierarchical classifications of Disease

The following list attempts to classify Disease into categories where each line is subset of the next.

WordNet 2.1

• illness,malady,sickness,unwellness
• health problem,ill health,unhealthiness
• pathological state
• condition,status
• state

Source: WordNet 2.1

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy:

• Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms
  • Pathologic Processes
    • Disease

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