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Disease
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ DISEASE  id+ | opp of HEALTH |      see> HEALTH
^u         myth> DIS has to do with
                 DISEASE and DISINTEGRATE and
  in Rome it stood for HELL and DEATH
  ply> | DISEASE CAN BE HELL AND END IN DEATH |
  id+ | DIMINISHED HOMEOSTASIS or STABILITY |
  see> HOMEOSTASIS  see> HORMONE
  med> CHARACTERISTIC SET or PATTERN
       OF SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS     see> SYNDROME
  INDICATIVE OR AN ALTERED       sug> AILMENT
  STATE OF HEALTH |              sug> ILL
  opp of see> HEALTH
  ply> | "TO FALL APART" IS A SIGN OF DISEASE |
  ply> | NOBODY FEELS AT EASE WITH DISEASE |
  ply> | DISEASE links with NOT AT EASE and even
         suggests that the DEVIL stands for
         ILL and EVIL |
  more ideas are in
  AILING  or SICK  SICKLY
  MALADY  as if to point out a
  DISORDER or DISORGANIZED ORGANISM
  INFIRM as if UN FIRM or NOT FIRM or SOFTENED or
  UNSTEADY HEALTH or altered
  see> HOMEOSTASIS     see> STATIC    sug> STEADY
  gr   IE            = SEND AWAY
  sp   IR              TO GO
  gr   IACERE          THROW DOWN   sug> PROSTRATE
  sp   ENFERMEDAD      INFIRM INFIRMITY
  eng  INFIRMARY       HOSPITAL  ASYLUM
       INVALID         DISABLED as if DEVALUED
  ukr  BILNITZIA       HOSPITAL  HOSPICE
       BOLA            SERIOUS SICKNESS or EPIDEMIC
       BOLI            SUFFERING  HURTING  SICK
       BOLIT           PAIN  HURTING  STRAIN
  rus  BOLNOI          PATIENT  or "THE SORE ONE"
       BOLESN          INFIRMITY  AILMENT
  ukr  KHVORYJ         SICK or PATIENT as if a MOANING CHOIR
       KHOR            CHOIR as in
                       GROAN GRUNT GRIM GRIMACE
       KHVOROBA        DISEASE     sug> SCOURGE
  sp   JOROBA          IMPORTUNITY also
  eng  HUMP            HILL RAISE RISE
  med>                 also ABNORMAL SPINE CURVATURE
                            CAUSING A HUMPBACK or
  gr   KYPHOSIS        or HUNCHBACK
  med>                 A SIGN OF TUBERCULOSIS
       KYPHOS          HUMP
  sp   JOROBAR         BOTHER  ANNOY  from
  arab HADABA          HUMP
  eng  DISCOMFORT      or
  lat  ANGOR           or     sug> ANXIETY
       MOESTITIA       or     sug> MOLEST
       TRISTITIA       or     sug> SADNESS
       INCOSOLABILIS   or     sug> INCONSOLABLE
       MORBUS          MORBID
  med> DISEASES REFLECTS DIMINISHED
       ABILITY TO "PRESERVE SELF" as well as
  AGING which is another kind of
  "IMPERFECT SELF REPLICATION"
  DISEASE CAN BE SELF PERCEIVED AS SYMPTOMS
  DISEASE CAN BE PERCEIVED BY OTHERS AS
  SIGNS or SIGNALS OF PHYSICAL ALTERATIONS
  DISEASE CAN ALSO BE MANIFEST BY ALTERED
  CHEMICAL GENE or other MARKERS
  THE IDEA OF CAUSE or
   see> ETIOLOGY is distinct from
  DIAGNOSIS since
  ONE ETIOLOGY CAN CAUSE VARIOUS DISEASES or
  VARIOUS ETIOLOGIES CAN CAUSE ONE DISEASE
  PATHOGENESIS is the PATH or MECHANISM OF A
  ETIOLOGY MANIFESTED AS SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS
  note DISEASE is also described as
       DEVIATION or INTERRUPTION OF
  ANY NORMAL STRUCTURE or FUNCTION OF AN ORGANISM
  note AMPUTATION or being SHORT or TALL
  are not thought as "DISEASE"  when
  FUNCTIONS or HOMEOSTASIS ARE PRESERVED
  note DISEASE IMPLIES A DYNAMIC PROCESS
  note DISABILITY IMPLIES A STATIC CONDITION
  see> DISORDER  see> HEALTH
  note DISEASE MAY RESULT FROM
       KNOWN or UNKNOWN CAUSES
  IF PROGRESSIVE
  DISEASE ULTIMATELY CAUSES DEATH     sug> IMBALANCE
  IF CHRONIC
  DISEASE LEADS TO INFIRMITY or
  DISABILITY                          sug> INCURABLE
  IF FADED
  DISEASE ENDS IN RECOVERY or
  HEALING                             sug> PANACEA
  ukr LIK     = REMEDY                sug> MEDIATOR
      LIKAR     PHYSICIAN or HEALER   sug> DOCTRINE
  sp  LIQUIDAR  LIQUEFY or DISSOLVE   sug> FLUSH
  see> DISTRESS
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