Disease

{dis-iz’) [dis, negative; ease, a state of rest]. A disturbance of function or structure of any organ or part of the body. A Table of Eponymic Diseases is appended. D., Acute, a disease marked by rapid onset and short course. D., Bleeders’, synonym of Hemophilia. D., Chronic, one that is slow in its course. D., Constitutional, one in which a system of organs or the whole body is involved. D., Focal, a localized disease. D., Functional, a disease without DISENGAGEMENT discoverable organic lesion. D., Idiopathic, one that exists by itself without any connection with another disorder; one of which the cause is unknown. D., Intercurrent, a disease occurring during the progre of another of which it is independent. D., Organic, one due to structural changes. D., Parasitic, one due to an animal or vegetal parasite. D., Septic, one arising from the development of pyogenic or putrefactive organisms within the body. D., Specific, one caused by the introduction of a specific virus or poison within the body; also a synonym of syphilis. D., Venereal, one due to sexual intercourse. D., Zymotic, a disease arising from the introduction and multiplication of some living germ within the body. 231