health vs disease vs illness

health

Definitions

noun

  1. the general condition of body and mind
  2. a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease

Examples

The critics call its recipes bland, unhelpful, unoriginal and unhealthy.

It might as well be closed, because in many American hospitals you're simply shooed from the windowsill after you've been nursed back to health (usually in 72 hours or less), and you're expected to "fly" on your own.

Two more debates are scheduled in the coming weeks, one debate dealing with education and health will be held in Irbid next week and the final week before elections the southern city of Karak will witness a candidates debate on agriculture and development.

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disease

Definitions

noun

  1. an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning

Examples

Leaving London they went to Paris, where they passed a few days, but soon grew weary of the place; and Lord Chetwynde, feeling a kind of languor, which seemed to him like a premonition of disease, he decided to go to Germany.

The Navajo made a tea of spotted coralroot used as a lotion for ringworm or skin disease.

Enlarged heart, medically called cardiomegaly, is not a disease, but a symptom of another condition.

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