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Illness
| Illness Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Illness?
[n] impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
Synonyms | Synonyms for Illness: malady |
sickness |
unwellness
Related Terms | Find terms related to Illness: abnormality |
acute disease |
addiction |
affection |
affliction |
ailment |
allergic disease |
allergy |
atrophy |
bacterial disease |
birth defect |
blight |
bug |
cardiovascular disease |
chronic disease |
circulatory disease |
complaint |
complication |
condition |
congenital defect |
defect |
deficiency disease |
deformity |
degenerative disease |
disability |
disease |
disorder |
distemper |
endemic |
endemic disease |
endocrine disease |
epidemic disease |
functional disease |
fungus disease |
gastrointestinal disease |
genetic disease |
handicap |
hereditary disease |
iatrogenic disease |
indisposition |
infectious disease |
infirmity |
malady |
malaise |
morbidity |
morbus |
muscular disease |
neurological disease |
nutritional disease |
occupational disease |
organic disease |
pandemic disease |
pathological condition |
pathology |
plant disease |
protozoan disease |
psychosomatic disease |
respiratory disease |
rockiness |
secondary disease |
seediness |
sickishness |
sickness |
signs |
symptomatology |
symptomology |
symptoms |
syndrome |
the pip |
urogenital disease |
virus disease |
wasting disease |
worm disease
See Also | aeroembolism |
ague |
air embolism |
amyloidosis |
anuresis |
anuria |
bends |
caisson disease |
catastrophic illness |
collapse |
decompression sickness |
disease |
food poisoning |
gas embolism |
gastrointestinal disorder |
growth |
health problem |
hypermotility |
ill health |
indisposition |
lead poisoning |
ozone sickness |
plumbism |
saturnism |
toxaemia |
toxaemia of pregnancy |
toxemia |
toxemia of pregnancy |
unhealthiness
Illness In Webster's Dictionary
\Ill"ness\, n. [From {Ill}.]
1. The condition of being ill, evil, or bad; badness;
unfavorableness. [Obs.] ``The illness of the weather.''
--Locke.
2. Disease; indisposition; malady; disorder of health;
sickness; as, a short or a severe illness.
3. Wrong moral conduct; wickedness. --Shak.
Syn: Malady; disease; indisposition; ailment.
Usage: {Illness}, {Sickness}. Within the present century,
there has been a tendency in England to use illness in
the sense of a continuous disease, disorder of health,
or sickness, and to confine sickness more especially
to a sense of nausea, or ``sickness of the stomach.''
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