DISFUNCTION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

(medicine) any disturbance in the functioning of an organ or body part or a disturbance in the functioning of a social group

Example:

sexual relationship dysfunction

Synonyms:

disfunction; dysfunction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("disfunction" is a kind of...):

pathology (any deviation from a healthy or normal condition)

Domain category:

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disfunction"):

ED; erectile dysfunction; male erecticle dysfunction (impotence resulting from a man's inability to have or maintain an erection of his penis)

palsy; paralysis (loss of the ability to move a body part)