malady
What ails you
A malady is a disease or ailment, though the word sounds old-fashioned or literary in modern use.
It extends to any unwholesome condition: Inflation is a malady that afflicts developing economies.
The word often implies something chronic or difficult to cure rather than an acute illness.
State of poor health
- sicknessBodily disorder or disease
- ailmentMinor health problem
- afflictionCause of ongoing distress
- infectionPathogen invasion causing illness
diagnosis · prognosis · pathology · symptoms · treatment · therapy · contagion · virus
Cause of ongoing distress
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- miseryIntense prolonged distress
- distressSevere anxiety or suffering
woe · pain · agony · hardship · tribulation · burden · sorrow · grief
Sudden eruption of trouble
- pandemicGlobal disease outbreak
- plagueDeadly epidemic disease
- contagionDisease spread by contact
- spreadTo distribute widely
transmission · quarantine · public health · endemic · incidence · prevalence · vector · containment
Abnormal or unhealthy operation
- conditionState or stipulation
- syndromeLinked symptoms forming pattern
- psychiatricOf mental health treatment
- neurologicalOf the nervous system
mental · psychological · anxiety · depression · phobia · bipolar · PTSD · autism
illness
State of poor health
- sicknessBodily disorder or disease
- ailmentMinor health problem
- afflictionCause of ongoing distress
infection · diagnosis · prognosis · pathology · symptoms · treatment · therapy · contagion · virus · bacteria
affliction
Cause of ongoing distress
distress · woe · pain · agony · hardship · tribulation · burden · sorrow · grief · adversity
outbreak
Sudden eruption of trouble
spread · transmission · quarantine · public health · endemic · incidence · prevalence · vector · containment · mortality
dysfunction
Abnormal or unhealthy operation
- conditionState or stipulation
- syndromeLinked symptoms forming pattern
- psychiatricOf mental health treatment
neurological · mental · psychological · anxiety · depression · phobia · bipolar · PTSD · autism · insomnia
societal
Of organized human groups
- corruptionDishonest abuse of power
- injusticeDenial of fair treatment
- dysfunctionAbnormal or unhealthy operation
systemic · cultural · moral · spiritual · political · economic · rot · decay · ill · blight
- illnessdisease, sickness, illness, ailment, disorder
- afflictionsaffliction, ailment, disease, illness, sickness
- ailmentsache, aches, ailment, cold, flu
- conditionsmedical condition, weather conditions, environmental conditions, living conditions, working conditions
- medical termsdiagnosis, disorder, surgery, disease, illness
- malaisemalaise, unwellness, discomfort, unease, sickness
maladyhealth
Condition of body, mind
wellness · healthiness · soundness · robustness · vigor
maladywell-being
State of health, contentment
flourishing · thriving · fettle · good condition · wellness
- malaria preventionStopping mosquito-borne illness
- malaria pillsPreventive drugs against mosquito-borne disease
- malaria testParasite infection screening
- malaria vaccineImmunization against plasmodium infection
- malaria symptomsEffects of parasitic blood infection
- malaria treatmentMedicine combating mosquito-borne parasites