Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary PowersDivision (I) Individual Volition
Section II. Prospective Volition
2. Degree of Subservience
655. Disease.
NOUN:DISEASE; illness, sickness &c. adj.; ailing &c. v.; “the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to” [Hamlet]; “all ills that men endure” [Cowley]; morbidity, morbosity [obs.]; infirmity, ailment, indisposition; complaint, disorder, malady, distemperature [archaic]; valetudinarianism; loss of health, delicacy, delicate health, invalidity, invalidism, invalescence [rare]; malnutrition, want of nourishment, cachexia or cachexy; prostration, decline, collapse; decay [See Deterioration].VISITATION, attack, seizure, stroke, fit, epilepsy, apoplexy, bloodstroke; palsy, paralysis, motor paralysis, sensory paralvsis, hemiplegia, paraplegia or paraplegy; paralysis agitans [L.], shaking palsy, Parkinson’s disease; shock; shell-shock [common during World War].
TAINT, virus, pollution, infection, contagion; septicæmia or septicemia, blood poisoning, pyæmia or pyemia, septicity; epidemic; sporadic, endemic; plague, pestilence.
FEVER, calenture; inflammation; ague; intermittent -, remittent -, congestive -, pernicious-fever; malarial fever; dengue or dandy fever, breakbone fever; yellow fever, yellow jack; typhoid or typhoid fever, enteric fever; typhus; eruptive fever; scarlet fever, scarlatina; smallpox, variola; varioloid; vaccinia, cow pox; varicella, chicken pox; rubeola, measles.
ERUPTION, rash, brash, breaking out; canker rash; dartre, exanthema or exanthem; scabies, itch, psora; pox; eczema, tetter, psoriasis; lichen, papular rash; lichen tropicus, prickly heat; impetigo; erythema; erysipelas, St. Anthony’s fire; urticaria, hives, nettlerash; herpes; herpes zoster, shingles; herpes circinatus, ringworm; miliaria, pemphigus, rupia.
SORE, canker, ulcer, fester, boil, gumboil; pimple (swelling) [See Convexity]; carbuncle; gathering; abscess, impostume or imposthume [obsoles.], aposteme; Rigg’s disease, pyorrhea or pyorrhœa; chancre; peccant humor; proud flesh; corruption; enanthem or enanthema, gangrene; mortification, sphacelus, sphacelation; slough, caries, necrosis; cancer, carcinoma; tumor, leprosy.
HEART DISEASE, carditis, pericarditis, endocarditis, valvular lesion; hypertrophy -, dilatation -, atrophy -, fatty degeneration- of the heart; angina pectoris.
WASTING DISEASE, marasmus, emaciation, atrophy; consumption, white plague, tuberculosis, T.B. [med. cant], phthisis; pulmonary -, galloping- consumption; pulmonary phthisis, phthisipneumonia, pneumonia; chlorosis, green sickness; anæmia or anemia; leucocythænia or leucocythenia.
THROAT DISEASE, laryngitis, tonsillitis, quinsy, cynanche; bronchitis, diphtheria, whooping cough, pertussis; thrush, canker.
COLD, cough; rheum; catarrh, hay fever; influenza, grippe or grip; rose cold.
INDIGESTION, dyspepsia, poor digestion, pyrosis, water qualm; cardialgia, heartburn; seasickness, mal de mer [F.]; nausea; giddiness, vertigo; constipation, autointoxication.
EYE DISEASE, trachoma, conjunctivitis, pink eye; cataract, caligo, pin-and-web, gutta serena [L.].
VENEREAL DISEASE, pox, syphilis; gonorrhea or gonorrhœa, blennorrhea or blennorrhœa, blennorrhagia.
[VARIOUS DISEASES] headache (physical pain) [See Physical Pain]; goiter or goitre, bronchocele, struma, tracheocele; lockjaw, tetanus, trismus; diarrhea or diarrhœa, dysentery, bloody flux, flux, issue, hemorrhage; hemorrhoids, piles; cholera, cholera morbus, Asiatic cholera [colloq., Eng.] cholera infantum, summer complaint; colic; jaundice, icterus; apnœa; asthma; king’s evil, scrofula; rickets, rachitis; appendicitis; gall-stones, biliary calculus, stone; hernia, rupture; varicosis, varicose veins; arteriosclerosis, hardening of the arteries; neuritis; nervous prostration; St. Vitus’s dance, chorea; neurasthenia; sciatica; rheumatism, arthritis, lumbago; dropsy, œdema or edema; elephantiasis; beriberi [both tropical]; locomotor ataxia; paresis, softening of the brain; bubonic plague; black death; leprosy, elephantiasis Græcorum; sleeping sickness.
fatal (hopeless) [See Hopelessness] -disease &c.; dangerous illness, churchyard cough; general breaking up, break-up of the system.
[DISEASE OF MIND] idiocy [See Imbecility. Folly]; insanity [See Insanity].
MARTYR TO DISEASE; cripple; “the halt, the lame, and the blind”; valetudinary, valetudinarian; invalid, patient, case.
sick-room, sick-chamber; hospital [See Remedy].
[SCIENCE OF DISEASE] pathology, pathogeny, etiology, nosology, nosography, nosogeny, therapeutics; diagnostics, symptomatology, semeiology, semeiography, prognosis, diagnosis; clinic, polyclinic.
[VETERINARY] anthrax, splenic fever, woolsorter’s disease, charbon, milzbrand, malignant pustule, quarter evil, quarter ill, Texas fever, blackwater, murrain, bighead; blackleg, black quarter; cattle plague, glanders, milk sickness; rinderpest, foot-and-mouth disease, hog cholera; epizoötic; heaves, rot, sheep rot; scabies, mange, distemper.
VERB:BE or FEEL ILL &c. adj.; ail, suffer, labor under, be affected with, complain of; droop, flag, languish, halt; sicken, peak, pine, dwindle; gasp; drop down in one’s tracks; waste away, fail, lose strength, lose one’s grip.
keep one’s bed; lay by, lay up; be laid by the heels; lie helpless, – on one’s back.
fall a victim to -, be stricken by -, take -, catch- -a disease &c. n., – an infection; break out.
MALINGER, feign sickness (falsehood) [See Falsehood].
ADJECTIVE:AILING &c. v.; ill, ill of; taken ill, seized with; indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy [colloq.]; affected -, afflicted- with illness; laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list; out of health, out of sorts [colloq.], under the weather [U. S.]; valetudinary.
UNSOUND, unhealthy; morbose [obs.], healthless, infirm, chlorotic, unbraced, cranky [dial. Eng.], sickly, weakly, weakened (weak) [See Weakness]; drooping, flagging; lame, halt, crippled, halting; hors de combat [F.] (useless) [See Inutility].
touched in the wind, broken-winded, spavined, gasping.
DISEASED, morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, septic, septical, tabetic, tabid, mangy, leprous, cankered; rotten, – to, – at- the core; withered; palsied, paralytic; dyspeptic; luetic, pneumonic, pulmonic, phthisic or phthisical, consumptive, tubercular, tuberculous, rachitic; syntectic or syntectical, varicose.
DECREPIT; decayed (deteriorated) [See Deterioration]; incurable (hopeless) [See Hopelessness]; in declining health; in a bad way, in danger, prostrate; moribund (death) [See Death].
EPIDEMIC, epizoötic [of animals]; zymotic, contagious; morbific [See Insalubrity].
QUOTATIONS:
- In sickness and in health.—marriage service
- Tie up the knocker; say I’m sick, I’m dead.—Pope
- The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.—Bible
- Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliance are reliev’d, Or not at all.—Hamlet
- This sickness doth infect The very life-blood of our enterprise.—I Henry IV
- That dire disease, whose ruthless power Withers the beauty’s transient flower.—Goldsmith
- A malady Preys on my heart that med’cine cannot reach.—Maturin
- The best of remedies is a beefsteak Against sea-sickness; try it, sir, before You sneer.—Byron