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disease

Roget category 655

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
5.2. Prospective volition
›› 5.2.2. Subservience to ends

#655. Disease

noun

diseaseillness, sickness etc. adj. — ailing &c. — all the ills that flesh is heir to" [Hamlet]; morbidity, morbosityinfirmity, ailment, indispositioncomplaint, disorder, malady distemper, distemperature.
visitation, attack, seizure, stroke, fit.
delicacy, loss of health, invalidation, cachexycachexia [Med.], atrophy, marasmusindigestion, dyspepsiadecay etc. (deterioration) 659decline, consumption, palsy, paralysis, prostration.
taint, pollution, infection, sepsis, septicity, infestationepidemic, pandemic, endemic, epizooticmurrain, plague, pestilence, pox.
sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boilpimple, wen etc. (swelling) 250carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issuerot, canker, cold sore, fever sorecancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumorcaries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus, sphacelation, leprosyeruption, rash, breaking out.
fever, temperature, calentureinflammation.
ague, angina pectoris [Lat.], appendicitisAsiatic cholera, spasmodic cholerabiliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plagueblennorrhagia, blennorrhoeablood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brashbreakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-feverheart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy [Med.]hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosisbronchocele [Med.], canker rash, cardialgia [Med.], carditis [Med.], endocarditis [Med.]cholera, asphyxiachlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre [Fr.]enanthem, enanthemaerysipelasexanthem, exanthemagallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sicknessgrip, grippe, influenza, fluhay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjawmeasles, mumps, polionecrosis, 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 coughyellow fever, yellow jack.
fatal disease etc. (hopeless) 859dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard coughgeneral breaking up, break up of the system.
[Disease of mind] idiocy etc. 499insanity etc. 503.
martyr to disease cripplethe halt the lame and the blind —" valetudinary, valetudinarianinvalid, patient, casesickroom, sick-chamber.
[Science of disease] pathology, etiology, nosology.
[Veterinary] anthrax, bigheadblackleg, blackquartercattle plague, glanders, mange, scrapie, milk sicknessheartworm, feline leukemia, roundwormsquarter-evil, quarter-illrinderpest.
[disease-causing agents] virus, bacterium, bacteria.
[types of viruses] DNA virusRNA virus.
[RNA viruses] rhinovirusrhabdoviruspicornavirus.
[DNA viruses] herpesviruscytomegalovirus, CMVhuman immunodefficiency virus, HI

verb

verb

be ill etc. adj. — ail, suffer, labor under, be affected with, complain of, havedroop, flag, languish, haltsicken, peak, pinegasp.
keep one's bedfeign sickness etc. (falsehood) 544.
lay by, lay uptake a disease, catch a disease etc. n., catch an infectionbreak out.

adjective

diseasedailing etc. v. — ill, ill oftaken ill, seized withindisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedyaffected with illness, afflicted with illnesslaid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick listout of health, out of sortsunder the weather [U.S.]valetudinary.
unsound, unhealthysickly, morbid, morbose, healthless, infirm, chlorotic [Med.], unbraced.
drooping, flagging, lame, crippled, halting.
morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, tabid, mangy, leprous, cankeredrotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the corewithered, palsied, paralyticdyspepticluetic, pneumonic, pulmonic [Med.], phthisic, rachiticsyntectic, syntecticaltabetic, varicose.
touched in the wind, broken-winded, spavined, gaspinghors de combat etc. (useless) 645 [Fr.].
weakly, weakened etc. (weak) 160decrepitdecayed etc. (deteriorated) 659incurable etc. (hopeless) 859in declining healthcrankyin a bad way, in danger, prostratemoribund etc. (death) 360.
morbific etc. 657epidemic, endemiczymotic.

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