What is the difference between a disease and a disorder?

Answer 1

Syndrome:

Syndrome can be described as a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease, or the like.

Disease:

Disease is any harmful, depraved, or morbid condition (a state of not well-being), as of the mind or considered by the society.

Disorder:

Disorder is nothing but a disturbance in physical or mental health or functions; malady or dysfunction

Answer 2

Disease is the older term of the two. Historically, it implies a relative permanence, non-subjectivity, and invariance of symptoms and causation beyond psychiatric illness. Those wishing to avoid negative stigma often prefer "disorder"; in contrast, those wishing to highlight molecular or genetic causation may opt for "disease", e.g. "Alcoholism is a disease".

Disorder is a newer term, often used for illnesses where the origin, duration, or physiological basis of an illness is relatively unknown. It is also used where there is a clear underlying cause, yet symptoms have an unusually wide, often subtle, range.

Both are fairly synonymous terms meaning deviations from accepted/"normal" physiological or psychological functioning.

Contrary to popular belief, neither imply particular underlying causes, nor is one more medically accepted than the other. In particular, disease can include but does not require infection (e.g. cardiovascular disease), disorders can be caused by infection (e.g., organ failure in septicemia or viral hepatitis) and doctors use both terms freely.
Disorder -out of order

Disease- not at ease
A disease is a destructive process in a organ or a organism with specific causes and characteristics...A disorder is the upset of normal function of the health.

Answer

Both are fairly synonymous terms meaning deviations from accepted, "normal" physiological or psychological functioning.

Contrary to popular belief, neither imply particular underlying causes, nor is one more medically accepted than the other. In particular, disease does not require infection (e.g. cardiovascular disease), disorders can be caused by infection (epilepsy), and doctors use both freely.

Disease is the older term of the two. Historically, it implies a relative permanence, non-subjectivity, and invariance of symptoms and causation beyond psychiatric illness. Those wishing to avoid negative stigma often prefer "disorder"; in contrast, those wishing to highlight molecular or genetic causation may opt for "disease", e.g. "alcoholism is a disease".

Disorder is a newer term, often used for illnesses where the origin, duration, or physiological basis of an illness is relatively unknown. It is also used where there is a clear underlying cause, yet symptoms have an unusually wide, often subtle, range.
you cannot catch a disorder but u can catch a disease. A disorder is inherited, a disease can be caught by anyone who is not immune to it.
nothing - its just 2 different words that mean the same thing (I have a genetic disease/disorder myself, so I do understand that things can quickly become very confusing with all the info they thrust upon you)

Answer 3

While these terms are sometimes used interchangeably, disease refers to a biomedically-defined deviation from norms of body function or structure, while illness is the experience of this deviation, and may thus have a significant psychological or emotional component.

Answer 4

I was looking for the answer but my suspicion is that a disorder is just as it implies. Something that is out of order. I think I'm an individual with some issues but overall functioning. Illness is when you get to the point that you're not functioning. Where everything has to stop and the person needs to get treatment.

Answer 5

A disease is a particular abnormal, pathological condition that affects an organism. It is often construed as a medical condition associated with specific signs and symptoms.

The condition is the state of a person's health. Condition excellent...condition fair, poor or terminal. A medical condition is a broad term that includes all diseases and disorders. While the term medical condition generally includes mental illnesses, in some contexts the term is used specifically to denote any illness, injury, or disease except for mental illnesses.

Though, the terms disease, disorder, and medical condition are used interchangeably. In some situations, specific terms are considered preferable.

Cancer is a disease but your condition could be very serious with cancer.

You can go to: http://www.doctor-dubai.com/dr_info_display.asp?dr_id=146 and/or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease#Terminology to get more information.

Answer 6

Yes, just like an answer is the same as a response.

Answer 7

Yes, pretty much