morb-, morbi-

Of a disease; of the disease.

1. Relating to or caused by disease; pathological or diseased.
2. Psychologically unhealthy or unwholesome.
3. Suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: "He had a morbid interest in death."
4. Affected by, caused by, causing, or characteristic of disease.
5. Gruesome; grisly.
6. Etymology: "the nature of a disease, indicative of a disease," from Latin morbidus, "diseased" from morbus, "sickness, disease", from the root of mori, "to die".

1. A diseased state.
2. The incidence or prevalence of a disease.
3. Morbidity rate; the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1 000 per year; death rate, mortality, mortality rate, fatality rate.
4. The quality of being unhealthy and generally bad for people; unwholesomeness, morbidness.

Capable of halting the progress of a disease.

The development of morbid conditions or of disease; more specifically, the cellular events and reactions and other pathologic mechanisms occurring in the development of disease.

1. Capable of causing a disease.
2. Giving origin to a disease or to morbid symptoms.

Proceeding from disease; morbid; unhealthy.

A diseased state; unhealthiness.

A disease; sickness, ailment, or grief.

This element often precedes other word-elements to indicate a specific ailment.

Heart disease.

Heart disease.

Degenerative arthritis of the hip joint; especially, of the aged.

1. Vagrants' disease or a parasitic melanoderma or excoriations and melanoderma caused by scratching the bites of body louse; pediculus corporis.
2. Discoloration of the skin in people who are subject to louse bites over long periods of time.

Syphilis.

Any disease associated with deprivation and neglect.