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

[types of viruses] DNA virus; RNA virus.
[RNA viruses] rhinovirus; rhabdovirus; picornavirus.
[DNA viruses] herpesvirus; cytomegalovirus, CMV; human immunodefficiency virus,
HIV.
V. be ill &c adj.; ail, suffer, labor under, be affected with, complain of, have; droop, flag,
languish, halt; sicken, peak, pine; gasp.
keep one's bed; feign sickness &c (falsehood) 544.
lay by, lay up; take a disease, catch a disease &c n., catch an infection; break out.
Adj. diseased; ailing &c v.; ill, ill of; taken ill, seized with; indisposed, unwell, sick,
squeamish, poorly, seedy; affected with illness, afflicted with illness; laid up, confined,
bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list; out of health, out of sorts; under the
weather [U.S.]; valetudinary † .
unsound, unhealthy; sickly, morbid, morbose † , healthless † , infirm, chlorotic [Med.],
unbraced † .
drooping, flagging, lame, crippled, halting.
morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, tabid † , mangy, leprous,
cankered; rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the core; withered, palsied, paralytic;
dyspeptic; luetic † , pneumonic, pulmonic [Med.], phthisic † , rachitic; syntectic † ,
syntectical † ; tabetic † , varicose.
touched in the wind, broken-winded, spavined, gasping; hors de combat &c (useless)
645 [Fr.].
weakly, weakened &c (weak) 160; decrepit; decayed &c (deteriorated) 659; incurable
&c (hopeless) 859; in declining health; cranky; in a bad way, in danger, prostrate;
moribund &c (death) 360.
morbific &c 657 [Obs.]; epidemic, endemic; zymotic † .
656. Salubrity -- N. salubrity; healthiness &c adj.. fine air, fine climate; eudiometer † .
[Preservation of health] hygiene; valetudinarian, valetudinarianism; sanitarian;
sanitarium, sanitOrium.
V. be salubrious &c adj.; agree with; assimilate &c 23.
Adj. salubrious, salutary, salutiferous † ; wholesome; healthy, healthful; sanitary,
prophYlactic, benign, bracing, tonic, invigorating, good for, nutritious; hygeian † ,
hygienic.
innoxious † , innocuous, innocent; harmless, uninjurious, uninfectious.
sanative &c (remedial) 662; restorative &c (reinstate) 660; useful &c 644.
657. Insalubrity -- N. insalubrity; unhealthiness &c adj.; nonnaturals † ; plague spot;
malaria &c (poison) 663; death in the pot, contagion; toxicity.
Adj. insalubrious; unhealthy, unwholesome; noxious, noisome; morbific † , morbiferous † ;
mephitic, septic, azotic † , deleterious; pestilent, pestiferous, pestilential; virulent,
venomous, envenomed; poisonous, toxic, toxiferous † , teratogenic; narcotic.
contagious, infectious, catching, taking, epidemic, zymotic † ; epizootic.
innutritious † , indigestible, ungenial; uncongenial &c (disagreeing) 24.
deadly &c (killing) 361.