Legal Definition and Related Resources of Disease

A condition of the body or some part or organ of the body, whose functions are disturbed or deranged. A deviation from healthy or normal condition of any of functions or disuse of body; alteration of state of body or some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing performance of vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness. See Brinkoetter v Pyramid Life Ins. Co., (Mo.App.) 377 S. W.2d 560.

For the purpose of furnishing an excuse for what would otherwise be a crime, “voluntary drunkenness is not regarded as a disease affecting the mind; but involuntary drunkenness, and diseases caused by voluntary drunkenness, fall, so far as they affect the mind, within that term.” Steph. Cr. 22,

noun

• affliction
• ailment
• attack
• bodily deviation from health
• bout of sickness
• breakdown
• chronic disability
• collapse
• condition
• contagion
• defect
• deterioration
• disability
• discomfort
• disorder
• distemper
• epidemic
• handicap
• ill health
• illness
• indisposition
• infection
• infirmity
• insalubrity
• invalidism
• loss of health
• malady
• morbus
• physical derangement
• plague
• scourge
• sickness
• taint
• unhealthiness
• unsoundness
• unwholesome condition
• virus
• weakness

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Disease, Sexual Behaviour and the Law

Disease

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Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Further Reading

• Disease in the Encyclopedia of Sexual Behavior and the Law

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Legal English Vocabulary: Disease in Spanish

Online translation of the English legal term disease into Spanish: enfermedad (English to Spanish translation) . More about legal dictionary from english to spanish online.

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Concept of Disease

In relation to securing dangerous material (in case of crisis or terrorism) a meaning of disease may be outlined, in general regarding European law, as follows: An unhealthy condition of the body (or a part of it) or the mind (illness, sickness) presented by symptoms peculiar to it.[1]

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Notes and References

1. Definition of disease published by the European Commission

Hemorrhagic Fevers and Diseases in the National Security Context

A definition and brief description of Hemorrhagic Fevers and Diseases in relation to national security is as follows:Hemorrhagic diseases are caused by infection with viruses or bacteria. As the name implies, a hallmark of a hemorrhagic disease is copious bleeding.

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