Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Disease

Nouns
  • disease
  • illness, sickness etc. adj.
  • ailing etc.
  • all 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 etc. (deterioration) Deterioration
  • 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 etc. (swelling) Convexity
  • 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, 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
  • 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 etc. (hopeless) [Absence, want or loss of hope.] Hopelessness
  • dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard cough
  • general breaking up, break up of the system. [Disease of mind] idiocy etc. Imbecility. Folly
  • insanity etc. Insanity. 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.
Verbs
  • be ill etc. 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 etc. (falsehood) Falsehood. lay by, lay up
  • take a disease, catch a disease etc. n., catch an infection
  • break out.
Adjectives
  • diseased
  • ailing etc. 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
  • weakened etc. (weak) Weakness
  • decrepit
  • decayed etc. (deteriorated) Deterioration
  • incurable etc. (hopeless) [Absence, want or loss of hope.] Hopelessness
  • in declining health
  • cranky
  • in a bad way, in danger, prostrate
  • moribund etc. (death) Death. morbific etc. Insalubrity
  • epidemic, endemic
  • zymotic.