Ailment vs. Disease — What's the Difference?

An illness, typically a minor one

A disease is a particular abnormal condition that negatively affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism, and that is not due to any immediate external injury. Diseases are often known to be medical conditions that are associated with specific signs and symptoms.

A physical or mental disorder, especially a mild illness.

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

Something which ails one; a disease; sickness.

An abnormal condition of a part, organ, or system of an organism resulting from various causes, such as infection, inflammation, environmental factors, or genetic defect, and characterized by an identifiable group of signs, symptoms, or both.

Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; - not applied ordinarily to acute diseases.

A condition or tendency, as of society, regarded as abnormal and harmful.

An often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining

(Obsolete) Lack of ease; trouble.

(medicine) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.

(by extension) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.

Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.

(obsolete) To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.

To infect with a disease.

Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.

An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder; - applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc.

To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress.

To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; - used almost exclusively in the participle diseased.

An impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning