noun. 
                    A physical disorder or disease; sickness or distemper of any kind; especially, a chronic, deep-seated, or dangerous disease.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    Hence, moral or mental disorder; any disordered state or condition: as, social maladies.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    Synonyms Infirmity, Distemper, etc. (see disease); complaint, ailment.