Which word- disease or illness?

 

DISEASE is used to talk about more severe medical problems, especially those that affect the organs. ILLNESS is used to talk about both more severe and more minor medical problems, and those that affect mental health--

 

heart/kidney/liver illness (×)

 

heart/kidney/liver disease (√)

 

mental disease (×)

 

mental illness (√)

 

DISEASE is not used to talk about a period of illness--

 

She died after a long disease. (×)

 

She died after a long illness. (√)

 

Source: Oxford Dictionary

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Vivek Tripathi