ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

on one's legs; sound as a roach, sound as a bell; fresh as a daisy, fresh as a rose, fresh
as April † ; hearty as a buck; in fine feather, in high feather; in good case, in full bloom;
pretty bobbish † , tolerably well, as well as can be expected.
sanitary &c (health-giving) 656; sanatory &c (remedial) 662 [Obs.].
Phr. health that snuffs the morning air [Grainger]; non est vivere sed valere vita [Lat.]
[Martial].
655. Disease -- N. disease; illness, sickness &c adj.; ailing &c; all the ills that flesh is
heir to [Hamlet]; morbidity, morbosity † ; infirmity, ailment, indisposition; complaint,
disorder, malady; distemper, distemperature † .
visitation, attack, seizure, stroke, fit.
delicacy, loss of health, invalidation, cachexy † ; cachexia [Med.], atrophy, marasmus † ;
indigestion, dyspepsia; decay &c (deterioration) 659; decline, consumption, palsy,
paralysis, prostration.
taint, pollution, infection, sepsis, septicity † , infestation; epidemic, pandemic, endemic,
epizootic; murrain, plague, pestilence, pox.
sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil; pimple, wen &c (swelling) 250; carbuncle, gathering,
imposthume † , peccant humor, issue; rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore; cancer, carcinoma,
leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor; caries, mortification, corruption,
gangrene, sphacelus † , sphacelation † , leprosy; eruption, rash, breaking out.
fever, temperature, calenture † ; inflammation.
ague, angina pectoris [Lat.], appendicitis; Asiatic cholera † , spasmodic cholera; biliary
calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia † ,
blennorrhoea † ; blood poisoning, bloodstroke † , bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever † ,
dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy
[Med.]; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele [Med.],
canker rash, cardialgia [Med.], carditis [Med.], endocarditis [Med.]; cholera, asphyxia;
chlorosis, chorea, cynanche † , dartre [Fr.]; enanthem † , enanthema † ; erysipelas; exanthem † ,
exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay
fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil,
lockjaw; measles, mumps † , polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis † , pneumonia, psora † ,
pyaemia † , pyrosis [Med.], quinsy, rachitis † , ringworm, rubeola, St.
Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma † ,
syntexis † , tetanus, tetter † , tonsillitis, tonsilitis † , tracheocele [Med.], trachoma, trismus
[Med.], varicella [Med.], varicosis [Med.], variola [Med.], water qualm, whooping
cough; yellow fever, yellow jack.
fatal disease &c (hopeless) 859; dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard
cough; general breaking up, break up of the system.
[Disease of mind] idiocy &c 499; insanity &c 503.
martyr to disease; cripple; the halt the lame and the blind; valetudinary † ,
valetudinarian; invalid, patient, case; sickroom, sick-chamber.
[Science of disease] pathology, etiology, nosology † .
[Veterinary] anthrax, bighead; blackleg, blackquarter † ; cattle plague, glanders † ,
mange, scrapie, milk sickness; heartworm, feline leukemia, roundworms; quarter-evil,
quarter-ill; rinderpest.
[disease-causing agents] virus, bacterium, bacteria.