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disease definition

dis·ease (di zēz′)

noun

  1. any departure from health; illness in general
  2. a particular destructive process in an organ or organism, with a specific cause and characteristic symptoms; specif., an illness; ailment
  3. any harmful or destructive condition, as of society

Etymology: ME disese, inconvenience, trouble, sickness < OFr desaise, discomfort < des-, dis- + aise, ease

transitive verb diseased -·eased′, diseasing -·eas′·ing

to cause disease in; infect or derange: usually in pp.

Etymology: ME disesen < OFr desaaisier < the n.

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