illness (redirected from Illnesses)

illness /ill·ness/ (il´nes) disease.

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emotional illness  a colloquialism for mental disorder, but not usually including mental retardation or mental disorders with a specific, known, organic etiology.

mental illness  see under disorder.

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ill·ness (lns)

n.

Disease of body or mind; poor health; sickness.

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illness

Etymology: ME, unhealthy condition

an abnormal process in which aspects of the social, physical, emotional, or intellectual condition and function of a person are diminished or impaired compared with that person's previous condition.

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illness [il´nes]

disease.

folk illness the experience of symptoms that are not identifiable with biomedical categories of disease; causes include natural forces, supernatural factors, interpersonal factors, and emotions. An example is susto, which is a Hispanic term for fright caused by a traumatic experience. Symptoms include listlessness, loss of appetite, and withdrawal. Curanderos (folk healers) treat the illness with prayers, rituals, and laying on of hands.

psychosomatic illness somatoform disorder.

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illness,

n 1. sickness or disorder.
2. malady of either body or mind the symptoms of which may be physically unobservable. Within general medical practice,
disease is nearly synonomous; however, illness has a more general connotation encompassing the subjective aspects of the patient as a whole rather than just physical or diagnostic symptoms; thus an alternative medical practitioner may prefer to treat illness rather than only the disease. See also disease and complaint.

illness, acute,

n illness with swift beginning and rapid course.

illness, layers of,

n.pl in homeopathy, multiple sets of symptoms in chronic disease, where as one set is cured with a specific remedy, the next set is revealed requiring a different remedy. See also symptoms, alternating; metastasis; suppression; and syndrome shift.

illness, level of,

n the depth of disease manifestation in an individual. The deepest level affects the person's integrity and creativity and major vital organs. See also direction of cure, syndrome shift and symptoms, hierarchy of.

illness, onset of,

n the pattern of situations and symptoms of the illness that is often crucial for determining the beginning or start of the condition. See also biopathography, etiological factor, causality, occasion, pathogenesis, and precipitating factor.

illnesses, environmental,

n.pl adverse health effects that result from exposure to chemical toxins found in the environment, such as heavy metals, pesticides, and solvents. Include disorders of the endocrine, immune, and neurological systems.

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illness

a subjective state in a human marked by feelings of deviation from the normal healthy state; a term not thought to be applicable to animals.

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illness

The state of being unwell, a term used by regulatory agencies–eg, the FDA, which modifies 'illness' with certain adjectives, in order to allow Pts to receive experimental drugs that do not have FDA approval. Cf Life-threatening illness, Severely debilitating illness.

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Patient discussion about Illnesses.

Q. How Can You Treat Morning Sickness? My sister has been suffering from morning sickness all throughout her first 4 weeks of pregnancy. Is there a way to treat morning sickness?

A. this is the third time today i recommend this amazing site for pregnant women, it's the "American college for Obstetricians and Gynecologists" website and it has pamphlets about any pregnancy question you'll have:

http://www.acog.org/publications/patient_education/bp126.cfm

take care :)

Q. If we can get sick all the time- why not take antibiotics all the time and prevent it? I can take antibiotics to my child and prevent his from getting all sort of diseases. And if so- what should I give him?

A. the problem with abuising antibiotics is that, bacteries build resistance to them, and then when you really need them they wont work.

Q. can dogs suffer from the same illnesses we do? I work with lots of dogs. I have a few with problems that doesn't fit pets, I guess... I think the pointer has autism. can it be?? and if they eat too much sugar (cause I have one who go crazy for it), can they get diabetes? I know it sounds weird but I really hope you can help me..

A. Dogs can suffer from cancer and some others illness human suffers. After all we have 75% genes in common. They can also duffer from problem in the nervous system, that may lead you to think it's like autism, but i'm not sure it's the same..
Try do more research on it on the search engine and on the web.