I am
reincarnating a series I started a couple of months ago, called 2 words 2
definitions where I provide the definitions of words that seem like they have
similar meanings and can be confused with each other. This posts words are:
Disease, Disorder & Syndrome. All three of these words have different meanings
but they may sound like they all have the same meaning, if you don’t know the
difference.
Disease is
an impairment of the normal state of the living animal or plant body or one of
its parts that interrupts or modifies the performance of the vital functions,
is typically manifested by distinguishing signs and symptoms, and is a response
to environmental factors (as malnutrition, industrial hazards, or climate), to
specific infective agents (as worms, bacteria, or viruses), to inherent defects
of the organism (as genetic anomalies), or to combinations of these factors.
The cause or causes of which are known.
Example: Parkinson's Disease
Example: Parkinson's Disease
Disorder is
an abnormal physical or mental condition.
Example: ADHD - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Syndrome is
the association of several clinically recognizable features, signs, symptoms,
phenomena or characteristics which often occur together, so that the presence
of one feature alerts to the presence of the others. In recent decades the term
has been used outside of medicine to refer to a combination of phenomena seen
in association.
Example: Middle East
Respiratory Syndrome
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