Sickness

n.	1.	The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady. I do lament the sickness of the king. - Shak. Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. - Pope.
	2.	Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.

Noun	1.	sickness - impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism Synonyms: illness, unwellness, malady
	2.	sickness - the state that precedes vomiting Synonyms: nausea

SICKNESS. By sickness is understood any affection of the body which deprives it temporarily of the power to fulfill its usual functions.
     2. Sickness is either such as affects the body generally, or only some parts of it. Of the former class, a fever is an example; of the latter, blindness. When a process has been issued against an individual for his arrest, the sheriff or other officer is authorized, after he has arrested him, if he be so dangerously sick, that to remove him would endanger his life or health, to let him remain where he found him, and to return the facts at large, or simply languidus. (q.v.)

aberration, abnormality, acute disease, affection, affliction, alienation, allergic disease, allergy, atrophy, bacterial disease, birth defect, blight, brain damage, brainsickness, cardiovascular disease, chronic disease, circulatory disease, clouded mind, complication, condition, congenital defect, craziness, daftness, defect, deficiency disease, deformity, degenerative disease, dementedness, dementia, derangement, disability, disorder, disorientation, distemper, distraction, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, epidemic disease, folie, functional disease, fungus disease, furor, gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, handicap, hereditary disease, iatrogenic disease, ill, ill health, indisposedness, indisposition, infectious disease, infirmity, insaneness, insanity, irrationality, loss of mind, loss of reason, lunacy, madness, malady, malaise, mania, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, mind overthrown, mindsickness, morbidity, morbus, muscular disease, neurological disease, nutritional disease, occupational disease, oddness, organic disease, pandemic disease, pathological condition, pathology, pixilation, plant disease, possession, protozoan disease, psychosomatic disease, queerness, rabidness, reasonlessness, respiratory disease, rockiness, secondary disease, seediness, senselessness, shattered mind, sick mind, sickishness, signs, strangeness, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, the pip, unbalance, unbalanced mind, unhealthfulness, unhealthiness, unsaneness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, urogenital disease, virus disease, wasting disease, witlessness, worm disease

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