Consumption vs. Disease
Consumptionnoun
The act of eating, drinking or using.
‘The consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England.’;
Diseasenoun
(pathology) 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.
‘The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and fruit withered.’;
Consumptionnoun
The amount consumed.
‘gross national consumption’;
Diseasenoun
(by extension) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
Consumptionnoun
The act of consuming or destroying.
‘The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.’;
Diseasenoun
Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
Consumptionnoun
(pathology) The wasting away of the human body through disease.
Diseaseverb
(obsolete) To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.
Consumptionnoun
Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.
Diseaseverb
To infect with a disease.
Consumptionnoun
The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.
‘Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his consumption.’;
Diseasenoun
Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
‘So all that night they passed in great disease.’; ‘To shield thee from diseases of the world.’;
Consumptionnoun
The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.
Diseasenoun
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.
‘Diseases desperate grown,By desperate appliances are relieved.’; ‘The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public counsels have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished.’;
Consumptionnoun
A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; - called also pulmonary consumption.
Diseaseverb
To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress.
‘His double burden did him sore disease.’;
Consumptionnoun
the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
Diseaseverb
To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; - used almost exclusively in the participle diseased.
‘He was diseased in body and mind.’;
Consumptionnoun
involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
Diseasenoun
an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning
Consumptionnoun
(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing;
‘the consumption of energy has increased steadily’;
Diseasenoun
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
‘heart disease’; ‘bacterial meningitis is quite a rare disease’;
Consumptionnoun
the act of consuming something
Diseasenoun
a particular quality or disposition regarded as adversely affecting a person or group of people
‘we are suffering from the British disease of self-deprecation’;
Disease
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.
