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morbus en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈmɔːbəs/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈmɔɹbəs/ (General-American)
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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mer-der.? Latin morbusbor. English morbus Borrowed from Latin morbus.

Meanings

1. (formal) A disease.
   • Unfortunately, most of the morbi accepted in modern medicine are only taxonomic entities whose causal derivation is merely partially known and therefore polygenic. 1979, F. Kraupl Taylor, D. M. K. Taylor, The Concepts of Illness, Disease and Morbus, page 117:
   • Probably no small share of our cholera morbuses, diarrhœas, and dysenteries, have their origin in this source. 1846, William Andrus Alcott, The Young House-keeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery, page 214:
   • 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!” 1838, Thomas Hood, “A Rise at the Father of Angling”, in The Comic Annual, page 47:

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Relateds

morbus cyclometricus · morbus coxarius · morbus Dupuytren · morbus mucosus · cholera morbus