disease

UK /dɪˈziːz/ · CA, US /dɪˈziz/

Etymology From Middle English disese, from Anglo-Norman desese, disaise, from Old French desaise, from des- + aise. Displaced native Middle English adle, audle (“disease”) (from Old English ādl (“disease, sickness”), see adle), Middle English cothe, coathe (“disease”) (from Old English coþu (“disease”), see coath). By surface analysis, dis- + ease.

Synonyms

affliction, ailment, coath, complaint, disease, disorder, egritude, ill health, illness, indisposition, sickness, trouble, malady, morbus, rot

Antonyms

haleness, health, healthiness, heartiness

Derived terms

731 terms

Addison's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Andersen disease, Arkin's disease, Aujeszky's disease, Baló's disease, Bamberger-Marie disease, Bang's disease, Banti's disease, Barcoo disease, Basedow's disease, Benson's disease, Besnier-Boeck disease, Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann disease, Blount's disease, Bright's disease, Buerger's disease, Calvé's disease, Canavan disease, Canavan-Van Bogaert-Bertrand disease, Caroli disease, Carrion's disease, central core disease, Chagas' disease, Charcot's disease, Charcot disease, Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease, Charlevoix disease, Christmas disease, citrus greening disease, Clarkson's disease, cost disease, Cowden's disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Crohn's disease, Cruveilhier-Baumgarten disease, Curschmann-Steinert disease, Darier's disease, Darling's disease, Dubreuilh-Hutchinson disease, Duchenne-Aran disease, Dupuytren's disease, Dupuytren disease, Ebola virus disease, Eisenmenger disease, Eisenmenger's disease, Filatov's disease, Filatov disease, Gaucher's disease, Gerstmann-Sträussler disease, Gilchrist's disease, Glässer's disease, Graves' disease, Graves disease, Gruby-Sabouraud disease, Haglund's disease, Hailey-Hailey disease, Hand-Schüller-Christian disease, Hansen's disease, Hansen disease, Hirschsprung disease, HIV disease, Hodgkin's disease, Hoffa's disease, Huntington's disease, Jansen disease, Kahler's disease, Kennedy's disease, Kennedy disease, Kienböck’s disease, Köhler-Pellegrini-Stieda disease, König's disease, Kostmann disease, Krabbe disease, Kufor-Rakeb disease, Kuru disease, Kussmaul-Maier disease, Kyasanur Forest disease, Larsen-Johansson disease, Ledderhose's disease, Ledderhose disease, Lhermitte-Duclos disease, Little's disease, Lou Gehrig's disease, Marburger virus disease, Marburg virus disease, Marchiafava-Bignami disease, Marion's disease, Marion disease, Martin's disease, Ménière's disease, Minamata disease, Miyasato's disease, Molteno disease, Mondor's disease, Monge's disease, Mucha's disease, Naito-Oyanagi disease, Naxos disease, Niemann-Pick disease, Ollier's disease, Osgood-Schlatter's disease, Owren's disease, Paget-Schroetter disease, Paget-von Schrötter disease, Paget's disease of bone, Paget's disease, Paget's disease of the breast, Panama disease, Panner's disease, Parkinson's disease, Pégot-Cruveilhier-Baumgarten disease, Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease, Pelizaeus-Merzbacher's disease, Pendred disease, Perthes' disease, Peyronie's disease, Pfeiffer's disease, Pick's disease, Posadas-Wernicke disease, Pott's disease, Purtscher's disease, railroad disease, Raynaud's disease, Recklinghausen disease, red spot disease, Riggs' disease, Rosai-Dorfman disease, Roth-Bernhardt disease, Saldino-Mainzer disease, Schamberg disease, Scheuermann's disease, Schimmelbusch's disease, Schneeberg disease, Schneeberg lung disease, Seitelberger's disease, Seitelberger disease, Sézary disease, Spike's disease, Steinert disease, Stieda disease, Takahara's disease, Takatsuki disease, Thiemann's disease, Unverricht-Lundborg disease, Verneuil's disease, von Willebrand disease, watery hide disease, Weil's disease, Wilson's disease, Worth disease, yellow dragon disease, yellow shoot disease, Aleutian disease, Appalachian Mountain disease, Borna disease, Borna disease virus, Bourneville's disease, British disease, California disease, Central Mississippi River Valley disease, Deutschländer's disease, Dutch disease, Dutch elm disease, English disease, French disease, Guinea worm disease, Keshan disease, Mediterranean disease, Mediterranean-hemoglobin E disease, Newcastle disease, Newcastle Disease Virus, Lyme disease, Ockelbo disease, Ohio Valley disease, Palm Island mystery disease, alcoholic liver disease, alpha chain disease, anterior horn cell disease, antiglomerular basement membrane disease, aortoiliac occlusive disease, area under disease progress curve, argyrophilic grain disease, arteriosclerotic heart disease, artery disease, artery occlusive disease, artificial disease, autoimmune disease, autoimmune inner ear disease, blackhead disease, black lung disease, black urine disease, blood disease, blue disease, blue ear disease, bluetongue disease, blue tongue disease, bomb-shell disease, bone disease, bone-thinning disease, brain disease, brittle-bone disease, brown lung disease, CADASIL disease, caisson disease, calculous biliary disease, cardiac disease, cardiovascular disease, cat scratch disease, celiac disease, coeliac disease, cerebrovascular disease, chronic beryllium disease, chronic granulomatous disease, chronic inflammatory bowel disease, chronic kidney disease, chronic obstructive airway disease, chronic obstructive lung disease, chronic renal disease, chronic respiratory disease, clinical disease, clown fish disease, conformational disease, congenital metabolic disease, connective tissue disease, coronary artery disease, coronary disease, coronary heart disease, cytomegalic inclusion disease, deficiency disease, degenerative joint disease, demyelinating disease, diffuse parenchymal lung disease, disease-free, diseaseless, disease management, disease management program, disease-modifying, disease mongering, disease of affluence, disease of civilisation, disease of civilization, disease pattern, diverticular disease, engineer's disease, extramammary Paget's disease, farmer's disease, fatty liver disease, fifth disease, fish-handler's disease, fish-skin disease, fishskin disease, foot-and-mouth disease, foot-and-mouth disease virus, gastric reflux disease, gastroesophageal reflux disease, gastro-intestinal disease, gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, gay disease, general disease, generalized disease, genetic disease, genetic prion disease, genital tract disease, geriatric disease, gingival disease, glycogen storage disease, graft-versus-host disease, grapevine disease, green monkey disease, gross structural heart disease, haemolytic disease of the newborn, hemolytic disease of the newborn, hand, foot and mouth disease, heart disease, heartworm disease, hip joint disease, hoof-and-mouth disease, hookworm disease, hyaline membrane disease, hypokinetic disease, immune-mediated disease, immunocomplex disease, immunoproliferative disease, immunoproliferative small intestinal disease, inflammatory airway disease, inflammatory bowel disease, interstitial lung disease, intervertebral disk disease, ischaemic heart disease, ischemic heart disease, kala-azar disease, leaf curl disease, leaf spot disease, legionnaires' disease, loco disease, locoweed disease, lymphoproliferative disease, mad cow disease, managerial disease, maple syrup urine disease, medullary cystic kidney disease, mental disease, metabolic bone disease, metabolic disease, microvillus inclusion disease, motor neuron disease, National Communicable Disease Center, National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit, neurocutaneous disease, neurodegenerative disease, neuroimmunological disease, neuromuscular disease, neuronal intermediate filament inclusion disease, no appreciable disease, nodding disease, no evidence of disease, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, notifiable disease, obstructive airway disease, obstructive airways disease, obstructive disease, occlusive disease, occupational disease, old timer's disease, organic disease, orphan disease, paediatric disease, pediatric disease, parrot disease, pearl disease, pearly disease, pelvic inflammatory disease, pepper disease, peptic ulcer disease, peripheral artery disease, peripheral artery occlusive disease, peripheral occlusive disease, peripheral vascular disease, pigeon breeder's disease, plant virus disease, pneumatic hammer disease, polycystic kidney disease, polycystic liver disease, prion disease, protein-folding disease, protein misfolding disease, pullorum disease, radiation-induced liver disease, reactive airway disease, rebellious disease, renal disease, rickettsial disease, round heart disease, serum disease, sexually transmitted disease, shothole disease, sickle cell disease, silver leaf disease, sixth disease, skin disease, stone disease, stress disease, structural heart disease, subclinical disease, summit disease, swainsonine disease, swineherder's disease, swineherd's disease, swine vesicular disease, thyroid eye disease, time-zone disease, tomato disease, urinary bladder disease, valvular heart disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, venereal disease, venous disease, vine disease, viral, viral haemorrhagic disease, viral hemorrhagic disease, vocational disease, watermark disease, white muscle disease, white spot disease, widespread disease, wilt disease, wind disease, wobbler disease, woolsorter's disease, zoonotic disease, zymotic disease, 4H disease, acorn disease, akamushi disease, Alpers' disease, Anaheim disease, anatipestifer disease, antidisease, apple summer disease, Arctic dog disease, arc welder's disease, Armenian disease, Armillaria root disease, Australian X disease, baby pig disease, Barlow's disease, Batten disease, Bayoud disease, beak and feather disease, Bechterew's disease, Beck-Ibrahim disease, beech bark disease, Behçet's disease, Behcet's disease, Bekhterev's disease, Benjamin Button disease, Birdsville disease, black band disease, blue-ear disease, blue-ear pig disease, blue waffle disease, Bornholm disease, Bowen's disease, brick venereal disease, Brill's disease, Brill-Zinsser disease, brisket disease, brittle bone disease, bronze disease, bronzed skin disease, bubble baby disease, bubble boy disease, Buerger disease, Buschke disease, calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate deposition disease, Camurati-Engelmann disease, Caplan disease, Castleman disease, Castleman's disease, cat-scratch disease, cave disease, Chagas disease, Cheadle's disease, chronic disease, chronic Lyme disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic wasting disease, Cobb's disease, cold agglutinin disease, collagen disease, congenital heart disease, copper transport disease, coronavirus disease 2019, corridor disease, creeping disease, crowd disease, Cumberland disease, Cupid's disease, Cushing's disease, Darier-Roussy disease, degenerative disc disease, Degos disease, Dejerine-Sottas disease, Dercum's disease, devil facial tumor disease, diploma disease, disappearing disease, disease boat, disease enhancement, diseaseful, diseaselike, diseasement, disease of despair, disease-ridden, diseasome, Duhring's disease, epizootic hemorrhagic disease, Erdheim-Chester disease, extramammary Paget disease, Fabry disease, Fabry's disease, Fahr disease, fall dwindle disease, Farber disease, flesh-eating disease, flint disease, Fong disease, Fonseca's disease, food-borne disease, foot-in-mouth disease, Forestier disease, Forestier's disease, Fox-Fordyce disease, fright disease, gasping disease, Gaucher disease, Georgina River disease, germ theory of disease, glass bone disease, glass disease, Glénard's disease, Gorham's disease, Grand Rapids disease, Grand Traverse disease, green ear disease, haemorrhoidal disease, Hallervorden-Spatz disease, hand-foot-mouth disease, hanging disease, hardware disease, Hartnup disease, Hashimoto-Pritzker disease, Hashimoto's disease, heart-hand disease, hemolytic disease, Hereford disease, Hirschsprung's disease, Hunt's disease, Hurler's disease, imperial disease, industrial disease, infectious disease, infectious disease specialist, ink disease, Isle of Wight disease, itai-itai disease, January disease, Johne's disease, jumping disease, Kashin-Beck disease, Kashin-Bek disease, Kawasaki disease, Kawasaki's disease, kidney disease, Kienböck's disease, Kienbock's disease, Kimberley horse disease, Kimura disease, kinky hair disease, kissing disease, Köhlmeier-Degos disease, Krishaber's disease, kromnek disease, Kyasanur forest disease, Lahaina disease, lake shore disease, Lanarkshire disease, Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease, Legionnaires' disease, Leigh disease, Leiner's disease, Letterer-Siwe disease, lifestyle disease, lime disease, littleleaf disease, lumpy skin disease, Lytico-Bodig disease, mad hatter disease, mammary Paget disease, mammary Paget's disease, maple bark disease, maple bark stripper's disease, maple-syrup-urine disease, maple-syrup urine disease, Marburg disease, Marek's disease, Marie's disease, McArdle's disease, MEB disease, medical students' disease, Menkes disease, Miana disease, Mikulicz disease, milky disease, milo disease, Milroy disease, Milroy's disease, miner's disease, minimal change disease, Mitchell's disease, mixed connective tissue disease, Moeller's disease, Möller-Barlow disease, Monday morning disease, motor neurone disease, Moyamoya disease, multidisease, muscle-eye-brain disease, myeloproliferative disease, Nairobi disease, Nairobi sheep disease, nameless bee disease, Nasu-Hakola disease, Navajo disease, navicular disease, Neapolitan disease, neurodisease, new duck disease, Nightcliff gardener's disease, nil disease, Nobel disease, nondisease, Norrie disease, nosema disease, Nosema-disease, Nosema disease, nubbin disease, oculocraniosomatic disease, old-timer's disease, old timers' disease, old-timers' disease, Ollier disease, Osgood-Schlatter disease, Osler-Rendu-Weber disease, Osler-Weber-Rendu disease, overstraining disease, Paget disease, Paget disease of bone, Paget disease of the breast, Paget disease of the nipple, Paget's disease of the nipple, Panner disease, PASLI disease, peach phony disease, Pedroso's disease, Perthes disease, phantom bone disease, Philippine fowl disease, phony disease, phony peach disease, Pictou disease, Pierce's disease, pink disease, Pogosta disease, polyhedral disease, Pompe disease, predisease, pre-disease, pulseless disease, pyrosomal disease, ragsorter's disease, Ranikhet disease, red ring disease, red tail disease, Refsum disease, Refsum's disease, Reiter's disease, Rendu-Osler-Weber disease, rich man's disease, Rio Grande disease, Ritter's disease, Robles' disease, rolling skin disease, root disease, royal disease, Royal Free disease, Rubarth's disease, runt disease, Salla disease, Sandhoff disease, Savoy disease, sea-star wasting disease, sea star wasting disease, seastar wasting disease, Sézary's disease, sickle-cell disease, Silk Road disease, skinbound disease, skull base disease, social disease, sooty bark disease, Spielmeyer-Vogt-Sjögren-Batten disease, starfish wasting disease, Stargardt disease, steely hair disease, Stewart's disease, St. Hubert's disease, Still's disease, stubborn disease, sugarcane grassy shoot disease, suicide disease, systemic exertion intolerance disease, Tay-Sachs disease, Teeny's disease, Teschen disease, the cure is worse than the disease, Thomsen disease, Thomsen's disease, toadstool disease, tree man disease, treetop disease, Trevor disease, tropical disease, tunnel disease, turkey X disease, Urbach-Wiethe disease, Viking disease, Virchow's disease, Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease, von Economo disease, Von Hippel-Lindau disease, von Hippel–Lindau disease, von Recklinghausen disease, von Willebrand's disease, walkabout disease, walking disease, wasting disease, Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, Wernicke's disease, Whipple's disease, whiptail disease, whirling disease, white line disease, white-spot disease, Whitmore disease, Whitmore's disease, Willis-Ekbom disease, winter vomiting disease, Winton's disease, Wolman disease, X-disease, yellow fat disease, yuppie disease, Yusho disease, Zika disease, zombie deer disease, Zuska-Atkins disease, Zuska's disease

Related terms

symptom, pain, diseased, injury, defect, :Category:Diseases, :Category:Pathology

Hypernyms

condition, medical condition

Hyponyms

See disease § Derived terms, most of which are hyponymous, See English terms suffixed with -iasis, See English terms suffixed with -osis, See Wikipedia at Category:Diseases and disorders, common cold, flu, influenza, measles, mumps, cholera, tuberculosis, AIDS, smallpox, malaria, leprosy, cancer