organic disease

American  

noun

Pathology.

1. a disease in which there is a structural alteration (opposed to functional disease).

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organic disease British  

noun

1. any disease in which there is a physical change in the structure of an organ or part Compare functional disease

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Etymology

Origin of organic disease

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

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organic disease

Policy makers are so convinced that children with attention deficits have an organic disease that they have all but called off the search for a comprehensive understanding of the condition.

From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2012

Yet her psychiatrist did not know she had an organic disease.

From Time ● Oct. 18, 2011

Yes — and the idea that you feel like you’re a different person is a symptom of the particular organic disease, which I discovered.

From Time ● Oct. 18, 2011

Repeated examinations for organic disease may scare the patient half to death, suggest that he must have some rare and fatal complaint that puzzles the medical experts.

From Time Magazine Archive

Aurelian looked at it like this: Sternhold was now about seventy-five, and had no organic disease.

From World's End A Story in Three Books by Jefferies, Richard