disease meaning
EN
[dɪˈziːz] [dɪˈziz] [-iːz] 
US WDisease
- A disease is a particular abnormal condition, a disorder of a structure or function, that affects part or all of an organism. The causal study of disease is called pathology.
- Death due to disease is called death by natural causes. There are four main types of disease: pathogenic disease, deficiency disease, hereditary disease, and physiological disease. Diseases can also be classified as communicable and non-communicable.
- NounPLdiseasesPREdis-SUF-ase
- (pathology) 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.
- The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and fruit withered.
- (by extension) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
- Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
- (pathology) 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.
- VerbSGdiseasesPRdiseasingPT, PPdiseased
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Ich is one of the most common diseases of freshwater fish.
- The disease can be classified into a dry or nonexudative form (geographic atrophy) and a wet or exudative form (neovascular AMD).
- Subjects with ophthalmic conditions other than dry eye or systemic disease including blepharitis, meibomitis, lid abnormalities as well as contact lens wearers were also excluded.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- He says that tongue-lolling is not an unsoundness. It certainly is an unsoundness, not a disease.
- In this respect, therapy using bee and wasp venoms is considered a psychoneurological approach for autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases.
- You have only to quininize your patient on the day preceding, and continue it until the 7th, 14th, or 21st days shall have passed, to break up the disease.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of disease in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Morphemes
- Prefixes
- Words by prefix
- Words prefixed with dis-
- Words prefixed with dis-
- Words by prefix
- Prefixes
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Morphemes
- en diseases
- en diseased
- en diseasedly
- en diseaseful
- en diseaseless
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "disease" is a morpheme, more specifically, a prefixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb.