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Disease (Any alteration of the normal)

any alteration of the normal vital processes of the body under the influence of some unnatural or hurtful condition, called the morbific cause. ac accompanied by change of structure, it is called organic or structurel; if not, it is said to be functional. The history of disease includes: (1) Symptomatology, or semeiology, the morbid phenomena or symptoms; (2) etiology, or causes of disease, the specific agents or causes generating or producing disease; (3) the special locality or seat of structural disease: (4) the nature and extent of morbid alterations, or lesions, or the stamps, anatomical signs, or evidence of its existence, in connection with its symptoms, causes, and course during life- morbid anatomy; and (5) morbid histology, or the elementary constituents of diseaseproducts. There are usually three