1. weil(n = noun.person) simone weil - French philosopher (1909-1943);
is a kind of philosopher
2. weil(n = noun.person) andre weil - United States mathematician (born in France) (1906-1998);
is a kind of mathematician
disease(n = noun.state) - an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning;
is a kind of illness, malady, sickness, unwellness
has parts: symptom, sign, syndrome
has particulars: disease of the neuromuscular junction, aspergillosis, anthrax, blackwater, cat scratch disease, complication, crud, endemic, endemic disease, enteropathy, incompetence, kawasaki disease, mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome, pycnosis, pyknosis, boutonneuse fever, indian tick fever, kenya fever, marseilles fever, meniere's disease, milk sickness, mimesis, industrial disease, occupational disease, onychosis, rheumatism, periarteritis nodosa, polyarteritis nodosa, periodontal disease, periodontitis, liver disease, communicable disease, exanthema subitum, pseudorubella, roseola infantilis, roseola infantum, respiratory disease, respiratory disorder, respiratory illness, congenital disease, genetic abnormality, genetic defect, genetic disease, genetic disorder, hereditary condition, hereditary disease, inherited disease, inherited disorder, inflammatory disease, autoimmune disease, autoimmune disorder, deficiency disease, cystic breast disease, cystic mastitis, fibrocystic breast disease, fibrocystic disease of the breast, goiter, goitre, struma, thyromegaly, pappataci fever, phlebotomus, sandfly fever, disease of the skin, skin disease, skin disorder, malignance, malignancy, eye disease, animal disease, plant disease, ozaena, ozena, filariasis
disease, n.
1 an unhealthy condition of the body (or a part of it) or the mind; illness, sickness.
2 a corresponding physical condition of plants.
3 a particular kind of disease with special symptoms or location.
Etymology:
ME f. OF desaise
N disease, illness, sickness, ailing, all the ills that flesh is heir to, morbidity, morbosity, infirmity, ailment, indisposition, complaint, disorder, malady, distemper, distemperature, visitation, attack, seizure, stroke, fit, delicacy, loss of health, invalidation, cachexy, cachexia, atrophy, marasmus, indigestion, dyspepsia, decay, 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, 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, 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, hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis, cholera, asphyxia, chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre, 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, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough, yellow fever, yellow jack, fatal disease, dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard cough, general breaking up, break up of the system, idiocy insanity, martyr to disease, cripple, the halt the lame and the blind, valetudinary, valetudinarian, invalid, patient, case, sickroom, sick- chamber, pathology, etiology, nosology, anthrax, bighead, blackleg, blackquarter, cattle plague, glanders, mange, scrapie, milk sickness, heartworm, feline leukemia, roundworms, quarter-evil, quarter-ill, rinderpest, virus, bacterium, bacteria, DNA virus, RNA virus, rhinovirus, rhabdovirus, picornavirus, herpesvirus, cytomegalovirus, CMV, human immunodefficiency virus, HIV, diseased, ailing, 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, valetudinary, unsound, unhealthy, sickly, morbid, morbose, healthless, infirm, chlorotic, 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, phthisic, rachitic, syntectic, syntectical, tabetic, varicose, touched in the wind, broken-winded, spavined, gasping, hors de combat, weakly, weakened, decrepit, decayed, incurable, in declining health, cranky, in a bad way, in danger, prostrate, moribund, morbific epidemic, endemic, zymotic.
addison's disease, albers-schonberg disease, albright's disease, alzheimer's disease, animal disease, autoimmune disease, autosomal dominant disease, autosomal recessive disease, bang's disease, banti's disease, basedow's disease, black disease, black lung disease, bleeder's disease, blood disease, bornholm disease, bosin's disease, brain disease, bright's disease, caisson disease, cardiovascular disease, cat scratch disease, celiac disease, center for disease control and prevention, chagas' disease, charcot-marie-tooth disease, chestnut-bark disease, christmas disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic wasting disease, communicable disease, congenital disease, contagious disease, coronary artery disease, coronary-artery disease, creutzfeldt-jakob disease, crohn's disease, cupid's disease, cushing's disease, cystic breast disease, darier's disease, deficiency disease, degenerative joint disease, disease of the neuromuscular junction, disease of the skin, dutch elm disease, endemic disease, epidemic disease, eye disease, fibrocystic breast disease, fibrocystic disease of the breast, fibrocystic disease of the pancreas, foot-and-mouth disease, gaucher's disease, genetic disease, gland disease, glandular disease, graves' disease, green monkey disease, guinea worm disease, hand-schuller-christian disease, hansen's disease, hashimoto's disease, heart disease, hereditary disease, hirschsprung's disease, hodgkin's disease, hoof-and-mouth disease, hookworm disease, huntington's disease, hurler's disease, hyaline membrane disease, hydatid disease, idiopathic disease, industrial disease, infectious disease, inflammatory bowel disease, inflammatory disease, inherited disease, iron-storage disease, jakob-creutzfeldt disease, jumping disease, kakke disease, kawasaki disease, kidney disease, kissing disease, lafora's disease, leaf disease, legionnaires' disease, lime disease spirochete, liver disease, loco disease, lou gehrig's disease, lyme disease, m'82ni'8are's disease, mad cow disease, malignant neoplastic disease, maple syrup urine disease, marble bones disease, marburg disease, marie-strumpell disease, mcardle's disease, meniere's disease, mental disease, minamata disease, monilia disease, monogenic disease, neurological disease, newcastle disease, niemann-pick disease, occupational disease, paget's disease, parkinson's disease, parrot disease, pelvic inflammatory disease, periodontal disease, pick's disease, pink disease, pink disease fungus, plant disease, polycystic kidney disease, polygenic disease, potato disease, pott's disease, pullorum disease, pulseless disease, ragpicker's disease, ragsorter's disease, reiter's disease, respiratory disease, rheumatic heart disease, rhizoctinia disease, rickettsial disease, riggs' disease, ring disease, sachs disease, schuller-christian disease, sclerotium disease, serum disease, severe combined immunodeficiency disease, sexually transmitted disease, sickle-cell disease, skin disease, social disease, spielmeyer-vogt disease, steinert's disease, still's disease, surveillance of disease, tay-sachs disease, thomsen's disease, tin disease, tsutsugamushi disease, valvular heart disease, venereal disease, von recklinghausen's disease, von willebrand's disease, wasting disease, weil's disease, werdnig-hoffman disease, werlhof's disease, wilson's disease, wilt disease, woolsorter's disease, zoonotic disease