[n] impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism [n] any unwholesome or desperate condition; "what maladies afflict our nation?"
illness, sickness, unwellness
health, wellness
abnormality, acute disease, affection, affliction, ailment, allergic disease, allergy, atrophy, bacterial disease, birth defect, blight, cardiovascular disease, chronic disease, circulatory disease, complaint, complication, condition, congenital defect, d