#654. Health. —
N. health, sanity; soundness &c. adj.; vigor; good
health, perfect health, excellent health, rude health,
robust health; bloom. mens sana in corpore sano[Lat];
Hygeia[obs3]; incorruption, incorruptibility; good
state of health, clean bill of health; eupepsia[obs3];
euphoria, euphory[obs3]; St. Anthony’s fire[obs3].
V. be in health &c.
adj. bloom, flourish.
keep body and soul together,
keep on one’s legs; enjoy good health,
enjoy a good state of health; have a clean bill of
health.
return to health; recover
&c. 660; get better &c. (improve) 658; take
a new lease of life, fresh lease of life; recruit;
restore to health; cure &c. (restore) 660; tinker.
Adj. healthy, healthful;
in health &c. n.; well, sound, hearty, hale,
fresh, green, whole; florid, flush, hardy, stanch,
staunch, brave, robust, vigorous, weatherproof.
unscathed, uninjured,
unmaimed[obs3], unmarred, untainted; sound of
wind and limb, safe and sound.
on one’s legs;
sound as a roach, sound as a bell; fresh as a daisy,
fresh as a rose, fresh as April[obs3]; hearty as a
buck; in fine feather, in high feather; in good case,
in full bloom; pretty bobbish[obs3], tolerably well,
as well as can be expected.
sanitary &c. (health-giving)
656; sanatory &c. (remedial) 662[obs3].
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[obs3].
visitation, attack,
seizure, stroke, fit.
delicacy, loss of health,
invalidation, cachexy[obs3]; cachexia[Med],
atrophy, marasmus[obs3]; indigestion, dyspepsia; decay
&c. (deterioration) 659; decline, consumption, palsy,
paralysis, prostration.
taint, pollution, infection,
sepsis, septicity[obs3], infestation;
epidemic, pandemic, endemic, epizootic; murrain, plague,
pestilence, pox.
sore, ulcer, abscess,
fester, boil; pimple, wen &c. (swelling) 250;
carbuncle, gathering, imposthume[obs3], peccant humor,
issue; rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore; cancer,
carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy,
tumor; caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene,
sphacelus[obs3], sphacelation[obs3], leprosy; eruption,
rash, breaking out.
fever, temperature,
calenture[obs3]; inflammation.
ague, angina pectoris[Lat],
appendicitis; Asiatic cholera[obs3],
spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone,
black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia[obs3],
blennorrhoea[obs3]; blood poisoning, bloodstroke[obs3],
bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever[obs3], dengue
fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac
arrest, cardiomyopathy[Med]; hardening of the arteries,


