What's the difference between ailment and disorder?

Ailment


Definition:

  • (n.) Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Herbalists in Baja California Norte, Mexico, were interviewed to determine the ailments and diseases most frequently treated with 22 commonly used medicinal plants.
  • (2) Le Dantec Hospital from January 1978 to June 1986 - shows the progression of this ailment, which remains rare (0.85% of admissions - 5 cases per year).
  • (3) However, after her diagnosis, it became my occupation to know everything about her ailment because I was her caregiver during her excruciating decline.
  • (4) Based on a quantitative analysis of sputum cultures, pathogenic bacteria in respiratory ailments isolated in our laboratory during 1984 to 1986 were classified and analyzed.
  • (5) The overriding common features of these ailments are the gender of their sufferers and the behavioral symptoms they exhibit.
  • (6) Muchhal, a professional singer who has worked on major Bollywood hits, has raised more than 37m rupees (£400,000) to save the lives of more than 550 children with heart ailments.
  • (7) Consistent with these measures, derived from self-reported data, physician-diagnosed measures also indicate a greater vulnerability of unemployed individuals to serious physical ailments such as heart trouble, pain in heart and chest, high blood pressure, spells of faint-dizziness, bone-joint problems and hypertension.
  • (8) The hypothesis tested was that cognitive factors in the generation of stress, namely perceived coping incapacity (PCI), relate to the extent of psychosomatic ailments.
  • (9) The observed group consisted of 20 women of age between 18 and 35 years treated because of acute hepatitis without coexisting diseases including gynecological ailments.
  • (10) When several diagnostic procedures are performed on a patient, the probability of his having or not having a specific ailment will change as the result of each procedure is known.
  • (11) Congestive cardiomyopathy accounted for 16 cases (24.3%) and diabetes mellitus unassociated with other ailments for another 6 cases (9.1%).
  • (12) Cerebral ailments characterized by attacks usually manifest themselves within one year after the accident.
  • (13) Furthermore, Miller had different ailments during the regular season and the Seahawks passing offense was inclined towards their receivers rather than the tight end position.
  • (14) But while Britain has left intensive care, we still need to secure the recovery – and make sure we continue to treat the ailments that brought us low in the first place."
  • (15) Swimmers experienced respiratory ailments most frequently, followed by gastrointestinal, eye, ear, skin, and allergenic symptoms, respectively.
  • (16) Finally, the case history of a patient with this ailment, treated by Mollin's light arches technique, is displayed.
  • (17) Accordingly, although the techniques of molecular biology are invaluable in generating new understanding of the mechanisms underlying drug specificity, they may prove disappointing as applied to actually tailoring specific drugs for the treatment of such major human ailments as hypertension or schizophrenia.
  • (18) Language ailment is then rarely isolated but it belongs to a global disorganizing of cerebral functions.
  • (19) Sometimes having a diagnosis for an ailment makes the symptoms much more palatable.
  • (20) In 17 towns in 11 countries across Europe, 10 questions on health were asked as part of a general standardized interview regarding self-perceived global and relative health, quality of life, chronic diseases, use of medicine and specific ailments.

Disorder


Definition:

  • (n.) Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.
  • (n.) Neglect of order or system; irregularity.
  • (n.) Breach of public order; disturbance of the peace of society; tumult.
  • (n.) Disturbance of the functions of the animal economy of the soul; sickness; derangement.
  • (v. t.) To disturb the order of; to derange or disarrange; to throw into confusion; to confuse.
  • (v. t.) To disturb or interrupt the regular and natural functions of (either body or mind); to produce sickness or indisposition in; to discompose; to derange; as, to disorder the head or stomach.
  • (v. t.) To depose from holy orders.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The findings are more consistent with those in studies of panic disorder.
  • (2) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
  • (3) Hypothyroidism complicated by spontaneous hyperthyroidism is an interesting but rare occurrence in the spectrum of autoimmune thyroid disorders.
  • (4) Diseases of the gastric musculature, including the inflammatory and endocrine myopathies, muscular dystrophies, and infiltrative disorders, can result in significant gastroparesis.
  • (5) The serum concentration of hyaluronan (HYA) was determined in 59 patients with various myeloproliferative disorders, including 33 patients with idiopathic myelofibrosis.
  • (6) The obvious need for highly effective contraception in women with existing disorders of glucose metabolism has led to a search for oral contraceptive (OC) regimens for such women that are efficient but without unacceptable metabolic side effects.
  • (7) Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are frequently accompanied by deteriorated renal functions and by pathological lesions in the glomeruli.
  • (8) Periodontal diseases are a collection of disorders that may affect patients throughout life.
  • (9) The study examined the sustained effects of methylphenidate on reading performance in a sample of 42 boys, aged 8 to 11, with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
  • (10) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
  • (11) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
  • (12) Our findings indicate that Turner girls have a functional brain disorder more often than the controls, particularly at the occipital and parietal areas and in those with hemispheric differences most often in the right hemisphere.
  • (13) Infusion of sodium lactate associated with isoproterenol could be used to combat the depressent effects of betablockers in patients with cardiac disorders.
  • (14) The review provides an update of drug-induced pulmonary disorders, focusing on newer agents whose effects on the lung have been studied recently.
  • (15) Hypercalcitoninemia was the most pronounced in patients with cardiac rhythm disorders and a simultaneous reduction in total serum calcium.
  • (16) Damage to this innervation is often initiated by childbirth, but appears to progress during a period of many years so that the functional disorder usually presents in middle life.
  • (17) We present a 40-year-old woman with manifestations of all three disorders.
  • (18) Osteogenesis imperfecta is the common term for a heterogeneous group of heritable disorders of connective tissue with lethal and nonlethal forms.
  • (19) What constitutes a "mental disorder" for purposes of the insanity defense?
  • (20) A 68 year-old man with a history of right thalamic hemorrhage demonstrated radiologically in the pulvinar and posterior portion of the dorsomedian nucleus developed a clinical picture of severe physical sequelae associated with major affective, behavioral and psychic disorders.