The Emergence Machine

Sick

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Emergence definition

Sickness emerges as the experience of compromised bodily function resulting from disease, which arises from infection that disrupts the complex system of the body.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “sick” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “sick”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin word
sick
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL7L6L5L4L3L2L1L0SickBodyAnimalDiseaseOrganismCellFormLifeStructureChangeMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

used byprerequisitesHospitalL8SickL7DiseaseL5BodyL6E1 concrete → E14 abstract

In other languages

  • sick English primary

Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Disease L5 (requires)
    Sickness is caused by disease
  • Body L6 (requires)
    Sickness affects the body

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