A Topical Dictionary: Search for ailment

Dictionary Results For "ailment" [?]/[OPML]

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Noun

Something which ails one; a disease; sickness.

Translations

Finnish: sairaus, vaiva
German: Leiden (1)
Kurdish:

ar:ailment fa:ailment fr:ailment io:ailment it:ailment pl:ailment pt:ailment ta:ailment te:ailment vi:ailment tr:ailment

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Ailment \Ail"ment\, n.
Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied
ordinarily to acute diseases. "Little ailments."
--Landsdowne.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet ailment
n : an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for
complaining [syn: complaint, ill]

Moby Dictionary
abnormality , acute disease , affection , affliction ,
allergic disease , allergy , atrophy , bacterial disease ,
birth defect , blight , cardiovascular disease , chronic disease ,
circulatory disease , complaint , complication , condition ,
congenital defect , defect , deficiency disease , deformity ,
degenerative disease , disability , disease , disorder , disquiet ,
disquietude , distemper , endemic , endemic disease ,
endocrine disease , epidemic disease , ferment , functional disease ,
fungus disease , gastrointestinal disease , genetic disease ,
handicap , hereditary disease , iatrogenic disease , ill , illness ,
indisposition , infectious disease , infirmity , inquietude , malady ,
malaise , morbidity , morbus , muscular disease , neurological disease ,
nutritional disease , occupational disease , organic disease ,
pandemic disease , pathological condition , pathology , plant disease ,
protozoan disease , psychosomatic disease , queasiness ,
respiratory disease , restiveness , restlessness , rockiness ,
secondary disease , seediness , sickishness , sickness , signs ,
symptomatology , symptomology , symptoms , syndrome , the pip , turmoil ,
urogenital disease , virus disease , wasting disease , worm disease