disease
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1. an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning (noun.state)
| hyponym | : | aspergillosis, |
| definition | : | disease especially in agricultural workers caused by inhalation of Aspergillus spores causing lumps in skin and ears and respiratory organs (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | anthrax, |
| definition | : | a disease of humans that is not communicable; caused by infection with Bacillus anthracis followed by septicemia (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | blackwater, |
| definition | : | any of several human or animal diseases characterized by dark urine resulting from rapid breakdown of red blood cells (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | cat scratch disease, |
| definition | : | a disease thought to be transmitted to humans by a scratch from a cat (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | complication, |
| definition | : | any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of (or because of) another disease (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | crud, |
| definition | : | an ill-defined bodily ailment (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | endemic, endemic disease, |
| definition | : | a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | enteropathy, |
| definition | : | a disease of the intestinal tract (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | incompetence, |
| definition | : | inability of a part or organ to function properly (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | pycnosis, pyknosis, |
| definition | : | a degenerative state of the cell nucleus (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | meniere's disease, |
| definition | : | a disease of the inner ear characterized by episodes of dizziness and tinnitus and progressive hearing loss (usually unilateral) (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | milk sickness, |
| definition | : | caused by consuming milk from cattle suffering from trembles (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | mimesis, |
| definition | : | any disease that shows symptoms characteristic of another disease (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | industrial disease, occupational disease, |
| definition | : | disease or disability resulting from conditions of employment (usually from long exposure to a noxious substance or from continuous repetition of certain acts) (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | onychosis, |
| definition | : | any disease or disorder of the nails (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | rheumatism, |
| definition | : | any painful disorder of the joints or muscles or connective tissues (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | periarteritis nodosa, polyarteritis nodosa, |
| definition | : | a progressive disease of connective tissue that is characterized by nodules along arteries; nodules may block the artery and result in inadequate circulation to the particular area (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | liver disease, |
| definition | : | a disease affecting the liver (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | communicable disease, |
| definition | : | a disease that can be communicated from one person to another (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | autoimmune disease, autoimmune disorder, |
| definition | : | any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | deficiency disease, |
| definition | : | any disease caused by a lack of an essential nutrient (as a vitamin or mineral) (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | goiter, goitre, struma, thyromegaly, |
| definition | : | abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; can result from underproduction or overproduction of hormone or from a deficiency of iodine in the diet (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | malignance, malignancy, |
| definition | : | (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | eye disease, |
| definition | : | any disease of the eye (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | animal disease, |
| definition | : | a disease that typically does not affect human beings (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | plant disease, |
| definition | : | a disease that affects plants (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | ozaena, ozena, |
| definition | : | a chronic disease of the nose characterized by a foul-smelling nasal discharge and atrophy of nasal structures (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | filariasis, |
| definition | : | a disease caused by nematodes in the blood or tissues of the body causing blockage of lymphatic vessels (noun.state) |
| part holonym | : | symptom, |
| definition | : | (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease (noun.state) |
| part holonym | : | sign, |
| definition | : | (medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease (noun.state) |
| part holonym | : | syndrome, |
| definition | : | a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease (noun.state) |
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