the ills that flesh is heir to [Hamlet]; morbidity, morbosity†;
infirmity, ailment, indisposition; complaint, disorder, malady;
distemper, distemperature†.
visitation, attack, seizure, stroke, fit.
delicacy, loss of health, invalidation, cachexy†; cachexia [Med.],
atrophy, marasmus†; indigestion, dyspepsia; decay &c (deterioration)
659; decline, consumption, palsy, paralysis, prostration.
taint, pollution, infection, sepsis, septicity†, infestation;
epidemic, pandemic, endemic, epizootic; murrain, plague, pestilence,
pox.
sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil; pimple, wen &c (swelling) 250;
carbuncle, gathering, imposthume†, peccant humor, issue; rot, canker,
cold sore, fever sore; cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease,
malignancy, tumor; caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene,
sphacelus†, sphacelation†, leprosy; eruption, rash, breaking out.
fever, temperature, calenture†; inflammation.
ague, angina pectoris [Lat.], appendicitis; Asiatic cholera†,
spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic
plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia†, blennorrhoea†; blood
poisoning, bloodstroke†, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever†, dengue
fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest,
cardiomyopathy [Med.]; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis,
atherosclerosis; bronchocele [Med.], canker rash, cardialgia [Med.],
carditis [Med.], endocarditis [Med.]; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis,
chorea, cynanche†, dartre [Fr.]; enanthem†, enanthema†; erysipelas;
exanthem†, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness;
grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture,
hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw;
measles, mumps†, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis†, pneumonia,
psora†, pyaemia†, pyrosis [Med.], quinsy, rachitis†, ringworm, rubeola,
St.
Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula,
seasickness, struma†, syntexis†, tetanus, tetter†, tonsillitis,
tonsilitis†, tracheocele [Med.], trachoma, trismus [Med.], varicella
[Med.], varicosis [Med.], variola [Med.], water qualm, whooping cough;
yellow fever, yellow jack.
fatal disease &c (hopeless) 859; dangerous illness, galloping
consumption, churchyard cough; general breaking up, break up of the
system.
[Disease of mind] idiocy &c 499; insanity &c 503.
martyr to disease; cripple; the halt the lame and the blind;
valetudinary†, valetudinarian; invalid, patient, case; sickroom, sick-
chamber.
[Science of disease] pathology, etiology, nosology†.
[Veterinary] anthrax, bighead; blackleg, blackquarter†; cattle
plague, glanders†, mange, scrapie, milk sickness; heartworm, feline
leukemia, roundworms; quarter-evil, quarter-ill; rinderpest.
[disease-causing agents] virus, bacterium, bacteria.
[types of viruses] DNA virus; RNA virus.
[RNA viruses] rhinovirus; rhabdovirus; picornavirus.
[DNA viruses] herpesvirus; cytomegalovirus, CMV; human
immunodefficiency virus, HIV.
V. be ill &c adj.; ail, suffer, labor under, be affected with, complain
of, have; droop, flag, languish, halt; sicken, peak, pine; gasp.
keep one's bed; feign sickness &c (falsehood) 544.
lay by, lay up; take a disease, catch a disease &c n., catch an
infection; break out.
Adj. diseased; ailing &c v.; ill, ill of; taken ill, seized with;
indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy; affected with
illness, afflicted with illness; laid up, confined, bedridden,
invalided, in hospital, on the sick list; out of health, out of sorts;
under the weather [U.S.]; valetudinary†.
unsound, unhealthy; sickly, morbid, morbose†, healthless†, infirm,
chlorotic [Med.], unbraced†.
drooping, flagging, lame, crippled, halting.
morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, tabid†,
mangy, leprous, cankered; rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the
core; withered, palsied, paralytic; dyspeptic; luetic†, pneumonic,
pulmonic [Med.], phthisic†, rachitic; syntectic†, syntectical†; tabetic†,
varicose.
touched in the wind, broken-winded, spavined, gasping; hors de
combat &c (useless) 645 [Fr.].
weakly, weakened &c (weak) 160; decrepit; decayed &c
(deteriorated) 659; incurable &c (hopeless) 859; in declining health;
cranky; in a bad way, in danger, prostrate; moribund &c (death) 360.
morbific &c 657 [Obs.]; epidemic, endemic; zymotic†.