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Also known as medical condition, medical disorder, illness, sickness, disease of anatomical entity, condition, disorder, other disease

thumb|upright=1.3|"The Sick Girl", by Michael Ancher, 1882, [[National Gallery of Denmark ]]

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Opisthotonus in a patient suffering from tetanus - Painting by Sir Charles Bell - 1809.jpg
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Commons category
Diseases and disorders
NCI Thesaurus ID
C2991
ICD-9-CM
799.9
ICPC 2 ID
A99
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17 sections
Contents
  • Terminology
  • Concepts
  • Types by body system
  • Stages
  • Extent
  • Classification
  • Causes
  • Types of causes
  • Prevention
  • Treatments
  • Epidemiology
  • Burdens of disease
  • Society and culture
  • Language of disease
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

thumb|upright=1.3|"The Sick Girl", by Michael Ancher, 1882, [[National Gallery of Denmark ]]

A disease is a particular abnormal condition that adversely affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism and is not immediately due to any external injury. Diseases are often known to be medical conditions that are associated with specific signs and symptoms. A disease may be caused by external factors such as pathogens or by internal dysfunctions. For example, internal dysfunctions of the immune system can produce a variety of different diseases, including various forms of immunodeficiency, hypersensitivity, allergies, and autoimmune disorders.

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