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noun any unwholesome or desperate condition
noun impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
originFrom Middle English maladie, from Old French maladie (“sickness, illness, disease”), from malade (“ill, sick”), from Latin male habitus (“ill-kept, not in good condition”), 1st century AD. See also malice and habit.
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