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Malady

Malady Meaning & Definition
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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