damage
harm
hurt
scathe | the act of damaging something or someone |
wrong
legal injury
damage | any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right |
| injury | wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted |
| injury | an act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage |
| damage control | an effort to minimize or curtail damage or loss |
blemish
defect
mar | a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body), a facial blemish |
| inheritance hereditary pattern | (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents |
| defect shortcoming | a failing or deficiency, that interpretation is an unfortunate defect of our lack of information |
injury
accidental injury | an accident that results in physical damage or hurt |
| damage equipment casualty | loss of military equipment |
battle damage
combat casualty | loss of military equipment in battle |
operational damage
operational casualty | loss of military equipment in field operations |
wound
injury combat injury | a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat |
| collateral damage | (euphemism) inadvertent casualties and destruction inflicted on civilians in the course of military operations |
damage
harm impairment | the occurrence of a change for the worse |
mass defect
mass deficiency | the amount by which the mass of an atomic nucleus is less than the sum of the masses of its constituent particles |
damages
amends
indemnity
indemnification
restitution
redress | a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury |
actual damages
compensatory damages
general damages | (law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensated |
| nominal damages | (law) a trivial sum (usually $.) awarded as recognition that a legal injury was sustained (as for technical violations of a contract) |
punitive damages
exemplary damages
smart money | (law) compensation in excess of actual damages (a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct) |
| double damages | twice the amount that a court would normally find the injured party entitled to |
| treble damages | three times the amount that a court would normally find the injured party entitled to |
price
terms
damage | the amount of money needed to purchase something, the price of gasoline, he got his new car on excellent terms, how much is the damage? |
attention deficit disorder
ADD
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
ADHD
hyperkinetic syndrome
minimal brain dysfunction
minimal brain damage
MBD | a condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders |
| brain damage | injury to the brain that impairs its functions (especially permanently), can be caused by trauma to the head, infection, hemorrhage, inadequate oxygen, genetic abnormality, etc. |
| hereditary cerebellar ataxia | nervous disorder of late childhood and early adulthood, characterized by ataxic gait and hesitating or explosive speech and nystagmus |
genetic disease
genetic disorder
genetic abnormality
genetic defect
congenital disease
inherited disease
inherited disorder
hereditary disease
hereditary condition | a disease or disorder that is inherited genetically |
autosomal recessive disease
autosomal recessive defect | a disease caused by the presence of two recessive mutant genes on an autosome |
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy | a form of neuropathy that can begin between childhood and young adulthood, characterized by weakness and atrophy of the muscles of the hands and lower legs, progression is slow and individuals affected can have a normal life span, inheritance is X-linked recessive or X-linked dominant |
injury
hurt
harm
trauma | any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. |
penetrating trauma
penetrating injury | injury incurred when an object (as a knife or bullet or shrapnel) penetrates into the body |
whiplash
whiplash injury | an injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident) |
speech disorder
speech defect
defect of speech | a disorder of oral speech |
| defect | an imperfection in a bodily system, visual defects, this device permits detection of defects in the lungs |
defect
fault
flaw | an imperfection in an object or machine, a flaw caused the crystal to shatter, if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer |
birth defect
congenital anomaly
congenital defect
congenital disorder
congenital abnormality | a defect that is present at birth |
| congenital heart defect | a birth defect involving the heart |
| septal defect | a congenital abnormality in the septum between the left and right sides of the heart |
| atrial septal defect | an abnormal opening between the left and right atria of the heart |
| ventricular septal defect | a common congenital heart defect, an abnormal opening in the septum dividing the ventricles allows blood to pass directly from the left to the right ventricle, large openings may cause congestive heart failure |
| inherited wealth | wealth that is inherited rather than earned |
visual impairment
visual defect
vision defect
visual disorder | impairment of the sense of sight |
| damage | inflict damage upon, The snow damaged the roof, She damaged the car when she hit the tree |
| damage | suffer or be susceptible to damage, These fine china cups damage easily |
defect
desert | desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army, If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot |
ancestral
hereditary patrimonial
transmissible | inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent, ancestral home, ancestral lore, hereditary monarchy, patrimonial estate, transmissible tradition |
familial
genetic
hereditary inherited
transmitted transmissible | occurring among members of a family usually by heredity, an inherited disease, familial traits, genetically transmitted features |