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ziekte — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • disease noun An illness affecting the body or mind, caused by infection, malfunction, or other harmful factors.
  • illness noun A disease or period of poor health.
  • morbidity noun The presence of disease or ill health in a person or a population, including how often a condition occurs and how much harm it causes.
  • sickness noun The state of being ill; a specific illness.

Senses

ziekte is used for these senses in English:

  • disease (medicine) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
  • illness (countable) An instance of a disease or poor health.
  • morbidity (medicine, countable) An occurrence of illness or disease, or a single symptom of that illness.
  • sickness The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.

disease — full definition

  1. noun An illness affecting the body or mind, caused by infection, malfunction, or other harmful factors.
  2. noun A harmful or corrupting pattern in a system, society, or way of thinking.

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