HEALTH PROBLEM
Dictionary entry overview: What does health problem mean?
• HEALTH PROBLEM (noun)
The noun HEALTH PROBLEM has 1 sense:
1. a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain
Familiarity information: HEALTH PROBLEM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• HEALTH PROBLEM (noun)
Meaning:
A state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
health problem; ill health; unhealthiness
Hypernyms ("health problem" is a kind of...):
pathological state (a condition that is not normal)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "health problem"):
dyscrasia (an abnormal or physiologically unbalanced state of the body)
harm; hurt; injury; trauma (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)
affliction (a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health)
pathology (any deviation from a healthy or normal condition)
heat hyperpyrexia; heatstroke (collapse caused by exposure to excessive heat)
infection (the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms)
biliousness (gastric distress caused by a disorder of the liver or gall bladder)
invalidism (chronic ill health)
illness; malady; sickness; unwellness (impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism)
bad condition; poor shape; softness; unfitness (poor physical condition; being out of shape or out of condition (as from a life of ease and luxury))
