What term denotes a disease?

• A. Infection
• B. Local Infection
• C. Disease
• D. Occupational Disease

Answer: (C)

A disease names an illness. It describes a condition that impairs normal body function and shows signs or symptoms. An infection, by contrast, means there are microorganisms present or growing in the body, but that presence isn’t the illness’s name by itself. A local infection is an infection limited to a specific area, not the general term for the illness. An occupational disease is a disease caused by work-related factors, which is a specific category of disease. So the term that denotes an illness itself is “disease.”