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Illness vs Decumbiture - What's the difference?

illness | decumbiture |

As nouns the difference between illness and decumbiture

is that illness is (countable) an instance of a disease or poor health while decumbiture is (obsolete) the fact of lying down, specifically of a person due to illness.

illness

English

Noun

  • (countable) An instance of a disease or poor health.
  • (uncountable) A state of bad health or disease.

    • Synonyms

    * (instance) sickness * (state) sickness * See also

    Related terms

    * ill * hypochondriac

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    decumbiture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) The fact of lying down, specifically of a person due to illness.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , author = , title = , year = 1734 , page = 34 , publisher = J. Roberts , passage = It happened during my tedious and melancholy decumbiture ... }}
  • The time one takes to one's bed during an illness, as used for astrological prognostications; or a chart drawn up to express this.
  • * 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 277:
    • By casting a figure for the decumbiture , or moment when the patient felt ill, and by resolving a question on the sight of his urine, the astrological doctor claimed to be able to diagnose the disease, prescribe the treatment, foretell when the sickness would reach its crisis, and prognosticate its eventual outcome.