Illness (sometimes referred to as ill-health or ailment) is a state of poor health. Illness is sometimes considered another word for disease, but others maintain that fine distinctions exist. This article discusses the definition of illness as the subjective perception by a patient of an objectively defined disease. Also can be defined as flu or ill has ethier survire or minor side affects. They includ keeping you off balnce change in behavour, also mood change.
The mode of being healthy includes, as defined by the World Health Organization, " a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity". When these conditions are not fulfilled, then one can be considered to have an illness or be ill. Medication and the science of pharmacology is used to cure or reduce symptoms of an illness or medical conditions. Developmental disability is a term used to describe severe, lifelong disabilities attributable to mental and/or physical impairments.
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“...his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 17:17.
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