disease
Roget category 655
5. Words relating to the voluntary powers› 5.2. Prospective volition
›› 5.2.2. Subservience to ends
#655.
Disease
noun
disease — illness, sickness etc. adj. — ailing &c. — all the ills that flesh is heir to" [Hamlet]; morbidity, morbosity† — infirmity, ailment, indisposition — complaint, disorder, malady — distemper, distemperature†.visitation, attack, seizure, stroke, fit.
delicacy, loss of health, invalidation, cachexy† — cachexia [Med.], atrophy, marasmus† — indigestion, dyspepsia — decay etc. (deterioration) 659 — decline, consumption, palsy, paralysis, prostration.
taint, pollution, infection, sepsis, septicity†, infestation — epidemic, pandemic, endemic, epizootic — murrain, plague, pestilence, pox.
sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil — pimple, wen etc. (swelling) 250 — carbuncle, gathering, imposthume†, peccant humor, issue — rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore — cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor — caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus†, sphacelation†, leprosy — eruption, rash, breaking out.
fever, temperature, calenture† — inflammation.
ague, angina pectoris [Lat.], appendicitis — Asiatic cholera†, spasmodic cholera — biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague — blennorrhagia†, blennorrhoea† — blood poisoning, bloodstroke†, bloody flux, brash — breakbone fever†, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever — heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy [Med.] — hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis — bronchocele [Med.], canker rash, cardialgia [Med.], carditis [Med.], endocarditis [Med.] — cholera, asphyxia — chlorosis, chorea, cynanche†, dartre [Fr.] — enanthem†, enanthema† — erysipelas — exanthem†, exanthema — gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness — grip, grippe, influenza, flu — hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw — measles, mumps†, polio — necrosis, pertussis, phthisis†, pneumonia, psora†, pyaemia†, pyrosis [Med.], quinsy, rachitis†, ringworm, rubeola, St.
Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma†, syntexis†, tetanus, tetter†, tonsillitis, tonsilitis†, tracheocele [Med.], trachoma, trismus [Med.], varicella [Med.], varicosis [Med.], variola [Med.], water qualm, whooping cough — yellow fever, yellow jack.
fatal disease etc. (hopeless) 859 — dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard cough — general breaking up, break up of the system.
[Disease of mind] idiocy etc. 499 — insanity etc. 503.
martyr to disease — cripple — the halt the lame and the blind —" valetudinary†, valetudinarian — invalid, patient, case — sickroom, sick-chamber.
[Science of disease] pathology, etiology, nosology†.
[Veterinary] anthrax, bighead — blackleg, blackquarter† — cattle plague, glanders†, mange, scrapie, milk sickness — heartworm, feline leukemia, roundworms — quarter-evil, quarter-ill — rinderpest.
[disease-causing agents] virus, bacterium, bacteria.
[types of viruses] DNA virus — RNA virus.
[RNA viruses] rhinovirus — rhabdovirus — picornavirus.
[DNA viruses] herpesvirus — cytomegalovirus, CMV — human immunodefficiency virus, HI
verb
verb
be ill etc. adj. — ail, suffer, labor under, be affected with, complain of, have — droop, flag, languish, halt — sicken, peak, pine — gasp.keep one's bed — feign sickness etc. (falsehood) 544.
lay by, lay up — take a disease, catch a disease etc. n., catch an infection — break out.
adjective
diseased — ailing etc. v. — ill, ill of — taken ill, seized with — indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy — affected with illness, afflicted with illness — laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list — out of health, out of sorts — under the weather [U.S.] — valetudinary†.unsound, unhealthy — sickly, morbid, morbose†, healthless†, infirm, chlorotic [Med.], unbraced†.
drooping, flagging, lame, crippled, halting.
morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, tabid†, mangy, leprous, cankered — rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the core — withered, palsied, paralytic — dyspeptic — luetic†, pneumonic, pulmonic [Med.], phthisic†, rachitic — syntectic†, syntectical† — tabetic†, varicose.
touched in the wind, broken-winded, spavined, gasping — hors de combat etc. (useless) 645 [Fr.].
weakly, weakened etc. (weak) 160 — decrepit — decayed etc. (deteriorated) 659 — incurable etc. (hopeless) 859 — in declining health — cranky — in a bad way, in danger, prostrate — moribund etc. (death) 360.
morbific etc. 657† — epidemic, endemic — zymotic†.
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Bold numbers signify related Roget categories. A dagger symbol (†) indicates archaic words and expressions no longer in common use.
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