Vision may be diminished or lost by organic disease in the coats or humours of the eye, or by morbid formations in the orbit; but to such the term Amaurosis does not strictly apply.
An eminent physician informed me I had no organic disease.
Impairment of nutrition is very frequently associated with functional or organic disease of the liver, and curative measures consist of the use of alteratives, friction baths, exercise, nutritive diet, and diversion of the mind.
By organic disease we mean disease pertaining to the structure of the heart itself, in contradistinction to functional disease, which has reference merely to the action of the heart.
In organic disease of the pancreas, intestine, liver, or heart the result will depend upon the nature and curability of the lesion.
If the secretion of urine diminish considerably under their use, or haematuria supervene, or organic disease of the kidneys exist, they must be employed cautiously, and may require prompt suspension.
By organic disease is meant one that causes serious, perhaps permanent deterioration of the tissues of the body; by functional disease is meant one due to a perverted action of approximately normal organs.
The cures no doubt took place as they asserted, but they were not cures of organic disease.
Organic disease, on the other hand, may run its course accompanied by much less suffering, but the destruction of tissue is serious, perhaps irreparable.
Here we have what might be called organic disease produced by functional disease, and such organic disease as this is often cured by Christian Science or by some more rational method of mental healing.
It has been given in some varieties of intermittent pulse, which are not due to organic disease of the heart.
In such incurable conditions it is probable that there is often an organic disease of the Pancreas, or a failure in the function of that gland.
Fatty matters need not be given where there isorganic disease of the Pancreas; as in that case they are not rightly digested.
Babinski’s second sign (combined flexion of thigh and pelvis) was now the only evidence of organic disease.
According to Elliot, therefore, this case is one of organic disease; whether of the roots or of the cord was uncertain.
It must not, of course, be forgotten that these are apt to occur in hysteria, as well as in organic disease of the nervous system, and in grave infectious states.
The first of these symptoms is of no pathognomonic value, and while the others no doubt are characteristic of organic disease, their development in this instance is too imperfect to warrant the deduction of pyramidal involvement.
Even in organic disease, such as tuberculosis or arteriosclerosis, it may still be true that we can help the patient chiefly through psychotherapy.
Or, again, the patient may have some definite organic disease or some obstinate train of discomforts and physical inconveniences.
Their cause is different, even though the picture they present is often a close copy of an organic disease.
Thanks to the investigations of physiologist and psychologist, usually combined in the person of a physician, "nervousness" has been found to be not an organic diseasebut a functional one.
Functional troubles usually show a near-picture of organic disease, with just enough contradictory or inconsistent features to furnish a clue as to their real nature.
The first essential is a diagnosis as to whether it be an organic disease, with accompanying nervous symptoms, or a functional disturbance complicated by some minor organic trouble.
The symptoms of organic disease of the heart are marked with extraordinary clearness in the following case.
Footnote 3: The celebrated Morgagni has recorded some cases of organic disease of the heart discovered by dissection, the symptoms of which do not exactly accord with those observed in this and the succeeding cases.
After death, water was discovered in the thorax; but the lungs had not that appearance of accumulation of blood, in particular spots, which is commonly observed in cases of organic disease of the heart.
He must be prepared to make a thorough and complete physical examination, sufficient to exclude the presence of organic disease.
If no organic disease is found, he must explore the whole environment of the child, and seek to determine whether the exciting cause is to be found in the reaction of the child to some form of faulty management.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "organic disease" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
