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DISEASE AND ITS PHYSICAL MANIFESTATIONS

The physical manifestations of a disease are signs and symptoms. A group of symptoms and signs that characterize a disease is a syndrome. The patient consults a doctor for various troubles.

Disease implies disturbance of vital functions either in the body or organism as a whole or in one in its organs or parts. It implies that the special symptoms and causes are known.

Affection is seldom used absolutely, for the term implies an attack upon a particular part or organ, as affection of the liver.

Ailment is rarely used except in reference to human beings. It is more often applied to chronic than to acute diseases, as a grave ailment.

Malady like ailment is applied chiefly to human diseases which cause illness or suffering, but unlike ailment it often names a serious and deep-seated organic affection or a possibly fatal acute disease.

Complaint suggests the invalid's point of view. It is applied chiefly to affections of the stomach, the intestines, the heart and so on.