disease
noun
[ dɪˈziːz ]
• a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury.
• "bacterial meningitis is quite a rare disease"
Similar:
illness,
sickness,
ill health,
infection,
ailment,
malady,
disorder,
complaint,
affliction,
condition,
indisposition,
upset,
problem,
trouble,
infirmity,
disability,
defect,
abnormality,
pestilence,
plague,
cancer,
canker,
blight,
bug,
virus,
lurgy,
wog,
contagion,
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘lack of ease; inconvenience’): from Old French desaise ‘lack of ease’, from des- (expressing reversal) + aise ‘ease’.
