morbus — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A disease.

   Usage

   • Formal

   Related words

   cholera morbusmorbus coxariusmorbus cyclometricusmorbus Dupuytrenmorbus mucosus

   Examples

   I thought he were took with the Morbus one day, I did with his nasty angle! For “oh dear,” says he, and burst out in a cry, “oh my gut is all got of a tangle!”

   Probably no small share of our cholera morbuses, diarrhœas, and dysenteries, have their origin in this source.

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   Unfortunately, most of the morbi accepted in modern medicine are only taxonomic entities whose causal derivation is merely partially known and therefore polygenic.