What is the difference between a disease and a disorder?
Disorder and disease are used interchangeably in clinical settings, but as what i have observed, disease is used more on the physical while disorder is very frequent in psychiatric/psychologic. Syndrome-characterized by the consortium of a group of signs and symptoms that occur together in a disease.isorder is a disturbance of structure or function. or both due to a genetic or embryological failure in. development or as the result of exogenous factors, such as certain chemical substances, injury, or disease.