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Are you sure about the latter? Wikipedia believes that "disease" means "any condition that impairs the normal functioning of the human body":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease#Terminology

Illness, they say, refers to the patient's experience of the disease. A person with a disease might not feel ill, and a person who experiences illness might not have a disease.




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