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Illness

Illness Meaning & Definition
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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