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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread medical condition #133113 09/15/2004 1:06 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,027 Switzerland wsieber old hand wsieber old hand Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,027 Switzerland There are at least three English words available for translating the German "Krankheit": disease, illness, sickness. There is certainly a fair degree of overlap between the meanings of these three words. But I should be interested to know the dimensions of their divergence (severity?, subjective vs. objective?, popular vs. scientific?). What does the team think? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted medical condition wsieber 09/15/2004 1:06 PM Re: medical condition jheem 09/15/2004 2:21 PM Re: medical condition wsieber 09/17/2004 5:25 AM Re: medical condition AnnaStrophic 09/17/2004 12:07 PM Re: medical condition TEd Remington 09/18/2004 10:09 AM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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