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Sickness vs. Illness vs. Disease
These words in English can confuse foreign language speakers, so here's a short explanation;

<em>Illness</em> can be used interchangeably when referring to both a physical or mental ailment in the general sense.
a. Tuberculosis is an illness that has been greatly eradicated in most parts of the world.
b. Lung cancer is an illness that affects smokers.
c. HIV is an illness that has affected many people over the years.
d. Schizophrenia is a mental illness that needs medical treatment.

<em>Sickness</em> - usually is used when it deals with physically debilitating situations (pneumonia, cold, flu, etc.)

<em>Disease</em> - usually has physical characteristics, ( bubonic plague, STD's, malaria, small pox, measles, chicken pox, etc.)

Hopefully this info helps!
8 Thg 09 2019 19:16
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You have to be careful though. Some things have been classified incorrectly years ago, so people may confuse the condition.

Example: Little's Disease.

This is not a disease as at. It is a condition. It is now known as Spastic diplegia. It a a specialized form of cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy is none of the three things you mention, yet at one time was treated as such.
8 tháng 9 năm 2019
Yes that's why the definition needs to be updated and modernised, to reflect today's world and knowledge and medical advances. I don't think many people suffering from a disease by dictionary definition, would take kindly to being referred to as "diseased" just because they had movement inability.
10 tháng 9 năm 2019
@John

Strokes are usually caused by an underlying medical condition, (e.g. heart disease).
9 tháng 9 năm 2019
What about the millions of people who have movement disorders caused by strokes of varying severity every year. Are these diseased people, people we want to avoid like the plague!? or are they ordinary unfortunate people with a condition. They may have a DIS-ease has defined in dictionaries, but they are not infected with something that people in the street need ran away from in panic.
Dis-ease
NOUN
<ol><li>a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury.</li></ol>

I agree with James S-C


Having the word disease in a iscussion about the subtle difference between sick and ill confuses the issue.

Are people who suffer strokes "diseased people" or "stricken people" ?
9 tháng 9 năm 2019

Is Cerebral Palsy a disease?

No. Cerebral Palsy is not a disease - it is actually a term used to describe a range of conditions that typically cause physical impairment.

The above comes from the cerebralpalsy.org website.

Cerebral Palsy is caused by brain damage before birth, during birth, or after birth while the brain is still under development. It is unique to the individual; it need not affect movement. It depends on the area of the brain affected and to what degree.

If you want to consider it a disease, do so. However, by classifying it, along with potential other conditions, as a disease does a disservice to those affected by it.

Since you want to say movement disorders are diseases, does drunkenness classify as a disease? Since I walk better than people in a drunken stupor, they must be the one with the disease.

By the way, I have Cerebral Palsy.I know other people with Cerebral Palsy. All of us were affected differently.I have a mixed form of Cerebral Palsy - Spastic and Ataxic. I have never thought of my "disability" as a disease.
9 tháng 9 năm 2019
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