What is the difference between disease and disorder?

(1) On February 21, 2009 at 8:06 pm Palitj [0] said:

the entry is incorrect and probably in jest.

Disorder is a medical term that refers to a recognizable collection of symptoms and signs without known etiology.

Disease is a term for a medical condition that has a known etiology, time course nd prognosis.

Recently however the cause of some disorders has been elucidated, thus blurring the distinction

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