disease
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
disease/dɪˈziːz/
▶noun
- 1 a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific symptoms or that affects a specific part.
- 2 a quality or disposition that adversely affects a person or group: the British disease of self-deprecation.
– derivatives
diseased adjective.
diseased adjective.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘lack of ease; inconvenience’): from OFr. desaise ‘lack of ease’.
'disease' also found in these Oxford entries:
acalculia
- active
- Addison's disease
- aetiology
- affect
- affection
- Aids
- Aids-related complex
- albuminuria
- allopathy
- Alzheimer's disease
- amaurosis
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- angelica
- anthracnose
- anthrax
- antisepsis
- antiseptic
- aphonia
- arthritis
- asbestosis
- atherosclerosis
- attack
- attaint
- autoimmune
- autopsy
- babesiosis
- bacterium
- balneotherapy
- beriberi
- big bud
- bilharzia
- bill of health
- biomarker
- biopsy
- blackleg
- black rot
- black spot
- blastomycosis
- bleomycin
- blight
- blind
- bloat
- bluetongue
- Bornholm disease
- Bright's disease
- brittle bone disease
- brown rot
- brucellosis
- BSE
