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.
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Disease Quotations
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Mother Teresa
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
John F. Kennedy
Love is a serious mental disease.
Plato
I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.
George Carlin
To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
Margaret Thatcher
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
Robert A. Heinlein
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
Alexander Pope
There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!
Richard P. Feynman
Disease Translations
disease in Afrikaans is siekte, kwaal
disease in Danish is sygdom
disease in Dutch is ziekte, kwaal, aandoening
disease in French is maladie
disease in German is Erkrankung, Krankheit, Krankheit
disease in Italian is malattia
disease in Latin is morbus
disease in Norwegian is sykdom
disease in Spanish is enfermedad
disease in Swedish is sjukdom
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