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Meaning of disease | Babel Free

Noun CEFR A1

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  1. A pathological condition of mind or body:ailment, complaint, disorder, ill, illness, infirmity, malady, sickness.
  2. (an) illness. She's suffering from kidney disease; poverty and disease. siekte, kwaal مَرَض болеcт doença nemoc, choroba, nákaza die Krankheit sygdom; -sygdom ασθένειαenfermedad, mal haigus بیماری؛ مرض sairaus maladieמחלה बीमारी bolest betegség penyakit sjúkdómur malattia 病気 질병 liga slimība penyakit ziektesykdom, –syke, lidelsechoroba ناروغى، جسمى يا فكرى ناروغتيا،مرض علت doença boală болезнь choroba bolezen bolest sjukdom[ar] โรคภัยไข้เจ็บ hastalık 疾病 хвороба, захворювання مرض bệnh 疾病
  3. 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.
  4. A condition or tendency, as of society, regarded as abnormal and harmful.
  5. Obsolete Lack of ease; trouble.
    Obsolete
  6. (Pathology) any impairment of normal physiological function affecting all or part of an organism, esp a specific pathological change caused by infection, stress, etc, producing characteristic symptoms; illness or sickness in general
  7. (Plant Pathology) a corresponding condition in plants
  8. any situation or condition likened to this: the disease of materialism.
  9. a disordered or abnormal condition of an organ or other part of an organism resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, nutritional deficiency, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness.
  10. any harmful condition, as of society.

CEFR level

A1
Beginner
This word is part of the CEFR A1 vocabulary — beginner level.

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