English-Portuguese translations for illness

• doença
  Só as doenças somáticas são admissíveis. Only somatic illnesses are tolerated.
  A poluição atmosférica causa doenças e mata. Air pollution causes illness and kills.
  Infelizmente, não pode estar presente devido a doença. Unfortunately, she is absent due to illness.
• enfermidade
  A sua decisão de vender as quotas tem como fundamento a doença, a enfermidade ou a velhice. Their decision to sell the quotas is based on illness, infirmity or old age.
  O tabagismo é a principal causa de doenças e enfermidades evitáveis em toda a UE. Smoking is the biggest cause of preventable illness and disease across the EU.
  A falta de água potável está na origem de 80% da taxa de enfermidade e morte nos países em desenvolvimento. Shortage of drinking water causes 80% of illnesses and deaths in developing countries.
• maladia

Definition of illness

• An instance of a disease or poor health
• A state of bad health or disease

Examples

• Her grandmother had passed away after a long illness.
• Many working days this year have been lost through illness.

Related words

• stillness
• illness behaviour
• illness {bearing
• mental illness
• glass illness
• children's illness
• fashionable illness
• succumb to illness
• cause of illness