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MALADY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
Synonyms:
illness; malady; sickness; unwellness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("malady" is a kind of...):
health problem; ill health; unhealthiness (a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "malady"):
condition (an illness, disease, or other medical problem)
ague (a fit of shivering or shaking)
amyloidosis (a disorder characterized by deposit of amyloid in organs or tissues; often secondary to chronic rheumatoid arthritis or tuberculosis or multiple myeloma)
anuresis; anuria (inability to urinate)
catastrophic illness (severe illness requiring prolonged hospitalization or recovery; usually involves high costs for hospitals and doctors and medicines)
collapse; prostration (an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion)
aeroembolism; air embolism; bends; caisson disease; decompression sickness; gas embolism (pain resulting from rapid change in pressure)
food poisoning; gastrointestinal disorder (illness caused by poisonous or contaminated food)
lead poisoning; plumbism; saturnism (toxic condition produced by the absorption of excessive lead into the system)
disease (an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning)
hypermotility (excessive movement; especially excessive motility of the gastrointestinal tract)
indisposition (a slight illness)
ozone sickness (illness that can occur to persons exposed to ozone in high-altitude aircraft; characterized by sleepiness and headache and chest pains and itchiness)
toxaemia; toxaemia of pregnancy; toxemia; toxemia of pregnancy (an abnormal condition of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and edema and protein in the urine)
growth ((pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any unwholesome or desperate condition
Example:
what maladies afflict our nation?
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("malady" is a kind of...):
condition; status (a state at a particular time)
Context examples:
Poor Marianne, languid and low from the nature of her malady, and feeling herself universally ill, could no longer hope that tomorrow would find her recovered; and the idea of what tomorrow would have produced, but for this unlucky illness, made every ailment severe; for on that day they were to have begun their journey home; and, attended the whole way by a servant of Mrs. Jennings, were to have taken their mother by surprise on the following forenoon.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
He was again in the grip of his mysterious malady.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And while I smothered the paroxysm with all haste, he sat calm and patient, leaning on his desk, and looking like a physician watching with the eye of science an expected and fully understood crisis in a patient's malady.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Mrs. Morland watched the progress of this relapse; and seeing, in her daughter's absent and dissatisfied look, the full proof of that repining spirit to which she had now begun to attribute her want of cheerfulness, hastily left the room to fetch the book in question, anxious to lose no time in attacking so dreadful a malady.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I must regret that an attack of gout, from which malady I am a constant sufferer, forbids absolutely any travelling on my part for some time to come; but I am happy to say I can send a sufficient substitute, one in whom I have every possible confidence.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Seriously apprehending that his malady would increase, unless we put some innocent deception upon him and caused him to believe that he was useful, or unless we could put him in the way of being really useful (which would be better), I made up my mind to try if Traddles could help us.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Neither has their language any more than a general appellation for those maladies, which is borrowed from the name of the beast, and called hnea-yahoo, or Yahoo’s evil; and the cure prescribed is a mixture of their own dung and urine, forcibly put down the Yahoo’s throat.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
My dear old fellow,—With regard to Miss Westenra's health I hasten to let you know at once that in my opinion there is not any functional disturbance or any malady that I know of.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
This doctor therefore proposed, that upon the meeting of the senate, certain physicians should attend it the three first days of their sitting, and at the close of each day’s debate feel the pulses of every senator; after which, having maturely considered and consulted upon the nature of the several maladies, and the methods of cure, they should on the fourth day return to the senate house, attended by their apothecaries stored with proper medicines; and before the members sat, administer to each of them lenitives, aperitives, abstersives, corrosives, restringents, palliatives, laxatives, cephalalgics, icterics, apophlegmatics, acoustics, as their several cases required; and, according as these medicines should operate, repeat, alter, or omit them, at the next meeting.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
