13,094
edits
Changes
From Nordan Symposia
Jump to navigationJump to search
mLine 1:
Line 1: + + + + + + + + Line 18:
Line 26: − +
Text replacement - "http://" to "https://"
[[File:lighterstill.jpg]][[File:Diseases_heart.jpg|right|frame]]
[[File:lighterstill.jpg]][[File:Diseases_heart.jpg|right|frame]]
==Etymology==
[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] disese, from Anglo-French desease, desaise, from des- dis- + eise ease
*Date: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Century 14th century]
==Definition==
*1 obsolete : trouble
*2 : a condition of the living [[animal]] or plant [[body]] or of one of its parts that impairs [[normal]] [[function]]ing and is typically [[manifested]] by distinguishing signs and symptoms : sickness, malady
*3 : a harmful [[development]] (as in a social institution)
==Description==
'''Disease''' is a pathological [[state]] of a part of an [[organism]]. Disease may be brought about by multiple causes such as [[genetic]], infectious, or [[environment]]al factors. Distinct symptoms usually indicate the [[presence]] of disease.
'''Disease''' is a pathological [[state]] of a part of an [[organism]]. Disease may be brought about by multiple causes such as [[genetic]], infectious, or [[environment]]al factors. Distinct symptoms usually indicate the [[presence]] of disease.
*Ingstad, Benedicte and Susan Reynolds Whyte. 1995. Disability and Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press.
*Ingstad, Benedicte and Susan Reynolds Whyte. 1995. Disability and Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press.
*Kleinman, Arthur. The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition. New York: Basic Books.
*Kleinman, Arthur. The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition. New York: Basic Books.
*Project Cork. 2004. "CORK Bibliography: Disease Concept of Alcoholism." Norwich, VT. (http://www.projectcork.org/index.html).
*Project Cork. 2004. "CORK Bibliography: Disease Concept of Alcoholism." Norwich, VT. (https://www.projectcork.org/index.html).
==Source Citation==
==Source Citation==
Anderson-Fye, Eileen. "Disease." Encyclopedia of Disability. Ed. Gary Albrecht. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: Sage Reference, 2006. 502-503. 5 vols. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Gale.
Anderson-Fye, Eileen. "Disease." Encyclopedia of Disability. Ed. Gary Albrecht. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: Sage Reference, 2006. 502-503. 5 vols. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Gale.
[[Category: Health]]
[[Category: Health]]
