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disease

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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Disease is a biological process and a manner of death. It is the opposite of health and has the effect of death. A disease has characteristics including symptoms and disease burden. It includes parts such as congenital disorders and acquired disorders. The subject is partially coincident with a medical state.

The field of pathology and the sociology of health and illness study disease. Medical treatment and disease management handle, mitigate, or manage it. Disease is classified under the Commons category "Diseases and disorders" and the topic's main categories are Category:Diseases and Category:Diseases and disorders. It is described by the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and the Gujin Tushu Jicheng.

Disease appears in the ICD-9-CM code 799.9 and the ICPC 2 ID A99. It is referenced by 3,344 other encyclopedia articles. The subject is on the focus list of Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have, WikiProject COVID-19, WikiProject Medicine, and Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4.

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Research

9,460,826 papers

Regulation of apoptosis in health and disease: the balancing act of BCL-2 family proteins.ReviewNature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2019Singh R, Letai A, Sarosiek KDOI: 10.1038/s41580-018-0089-8
Diversity-disease relationships and shared species analyses for human microbiome-associated diseases.The ISME journal · 2019Ma ZS, Li L, Gotelli NJDOI: 10.1038/s41396-019-0395-y
Cross-tissue organization of the fibroblast lineage.Nature · 2021Buechler MB, Pradhan RN, Krishnamurty AT et al.DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03549-5
Current understanding of the human microbiome.ReviewNature medicine · 2018Gilbert JA, Blaser MJ, Caporaso JG et al.DOI: 10.1038/nm.4517
Neuronatin Protein in Health and Disease.ReviewJournal of cellular physiology · 2017Pitale PM, Howse W, Gorbatyuk MDOI: 10.1002/jcp.25498
Metabolism of T Lymphocytes in Health and Disease.ReviewInternational review of cell and molecular biology · 2019Gaber T, Chen Y, Krauß PL et al.DOI: 10.1016/bs.ircmb.2018.06.002
Beating the odds: BETs in disease.ReviewTrends in biochemical sciences · 2015Wang CY, Filippakopoulos PDOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2015.06.002
Haemorrhagic disease of lagomorphs: evidence for a calicivirus.ReviewVeterinary microbiology · 1992Moussa A, Chasey D, Lavazza A et al.DOI: 10.1016/0378-1135(92)90065-2

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Encyclopedic overview

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
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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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