What's the difference between a disorder and a disease?
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A DISORDER, as it relates to the human body, could be described as a disturbance in physical or mental health or functions, for example, a dysfunctional body organ.
A DISEASE has to do with an incorrectly functioning body organ, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors.
It would be in a category along with an illness, a sickness or an ailment.
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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disorder...
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a disorder can be anything that is related issues that are brought on like mental illness, a disease is more than likely what you have caught from another or have developed over time. the media have used these term interactively, making them both seem one and the same, but there are true separations of these conditions that people should understand.
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