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Malady
| Malady Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Malady?
[n] impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
[n] any unwholesome or desperate condition; "what maladies afflict our nation?"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Malady: illness |
sickness |
unwellness
Related Terms | Find terms related to Malady: abnormality |
acute disease |
affection |
affliction |
ailment |
allergic disease |
allergy |
atrophy |
bacterial disease |
birth defect |
blight |
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 |
ill |
illness |
indisposition |
infectious disease |
infirmity |
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 |
condition |
decompression sickness |
disease |
food poisoning |
gas embolism |
gastrointestinal disorder |
growth |
health problem |
hypermotility |
ill health |
indisposition |
lead poisoning |
ozone sickness |
plumbism |
saturnism |
status |
toxaemia |
toxaemia of pregnancy |
toxemia |
toxemia of pregnancy |
unhealthiness
Malady In Webster's Dictionary
\Mal"a*dy\, n.; pl. {Maladies}. [F. maladie, fr. malade
ill, sick, OF. also, malabde, fr. L. male habitus, i. e.,
ill-kept, not in good condition. See {Malice}, and {Habit}.]
1. Any disease of the human body; a distemper, disorder, or
indisposition, proceeding from impaired, defective, or
morbid organic functions; especially, a lingering or
deep-seated disorder.
The maladies of the body may prove medicines to the
mind. --Buckminster.
2. A moral or mental defect or disorder.
Love's a malady without a cure. --Dryden.
Syn: Disorder; distemper; sickness; ailment; disease;
illness. See {Disease}.
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