Disease vs. Illness — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Disease and Illness
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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.
Illness
A disease or period of sickness affecting the body or mind
I've never missed a day's work through illness
He died after a long illness
Disease
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
Illness
Poor health resulting from disease of body or mind; sickness.
Disease
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.
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Illness
A disease.
Disease
A condition or tendency, as of society, regarded as abnormal and harmful.
Illness
The quality of being disagreeable or unpleasant.
Disease
(Obsolete) Lack of ease; trouble.
Illness
Evil; wickedness.
Disease
(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.
The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and fruit withered.
Illness
(countable) An instance of a disease or poor health.
Her grandmother had passed away after a long illness.
Suffer form a severe illness
A mild illness
Disease
(by extension) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
Illness
(uncountable) A state of bad health or disease.
Many working days this year have been lost through illness.
Disease
Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
Illness
The condition of being ill, evil, or bad; badness; unfavorableness.
Disease
(obsolete) To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.
Illness
Disease; indisposition; malady; disorder of health; sickness; as, a short or a severe illness.
Disease
To infect with a disease.
Illness
Wrong moral conduct; wickedness.
Disease
Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
So all that night they passed in great disease.
To shield thee from diseases of the world.
Illness
Impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
Disease
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.
Disease
To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress.
His double burden did him sore disease.
Disease
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.
Disease
An impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning
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