different between disease vs toxoplasmosis

English

Alternative forms

• (uneasiness): dis-ease

Etymology

From Middle English disese, from Anglo-Norman desese, disaise, from Old French desaise, from des- + aise. Equivalent to dis- +? ease. Displaced native Middle English adle, audle (“disease”) (from Old English ?dl (“disease, sickness”), see adle), Middle English cothe, coathe (“disease”) (from Old English coþu (“disease”), see coath).

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?-z?z? IPA^(key): /d??zi?z/
• Rhymes: -i?z

Noun

disease (countable and uncountable, plural diseases)

1. (pathology) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
   • November 22, 1787, James Madison Jr., Federalist No. 10

     The instability, injustice, and confusion, introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished; [...]
2. (by extension) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
   • 1955, The Urantia Book, Paper 134:6.7

     War is not man's great and terrible disease; war is a symptom, a result. The real disease is the virus of national sovereignty.

3. Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:disease

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Verb

disease (third-person singular simple present diseases, present participle diseasing, simple past and past participle diseased)

1. (obsolete) To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.
2. To infect with a disease.

Anagrams

• Seaside, seaside

English

Etymology

From French toxoplasmose, from translingual Toxoplasma +? -osis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?ks??plæz?m??s?s/

Noun

toxoplasmosis (countable and uncountable, plural toxoplasmoses)

1. A disease, caused by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, that primarily affects felids, but also other mammals including humans.
   • 2001, P. Ambroise-Thomas, Parasitic diseases and immunodeficiencies, F. E. G. Cox, L. H. Chappell (editors), Concomitant Infections, page 569,

     Some profiles are particularly associated with severe toxoplasmoses, but this relationship is especially true for experimental infections in the murine model.

   • 2008, Sarah J. Gaskill, Arthur E. Marlin, 74: Tuberculosis and Fungal and Parasitic Infections of the Central Nervous System, A. Leland Albright, Ian F. Pollack, P. David Adelson (editors), Principles and Practice of Pediatric Neurosurgery, 2nd Edition, page 1189,

     In a study of treatment of the infected mother during pregnancy with spiramycin, pyrimethamine, and sulfonamides there was a significant reduction in the severity of congenital toxoplasmosis.

   • 2008, Larry Vogelnest, Rupert Woods (editors), Medicine of Australian Mammals, unnumbered page,

     Like other Australian marsupial taxa, wombats appear particularly susceptible to toxoplasmosis due to exposure to the coccidian parasite Toxoplasma gondii.

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Translations

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to?soplas?mosis/, [t?o??.so.plaz?mo.sis]
• Rhymes: -osis
• Hyphenation: to?xo?plas?mo?sis

Noun

toxoplasmosis f (plural toxoplasmosis)

1. toxoplasmosis