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dysfunction

If there's dysfunction, then things aren't working right. High blood pressure is a medical dysfunction, and fighting amongst teammates is a kind of social dysfunction.

If you know that function means to work, then you shouldn't be surprised that dysfunction means something isn't working. Blind people have an optical dysfunction. A family that yells all the time and never listens has a communication dysfunction. If your car breaks down, it has some kind of mechanical dysfunction. But if everything is going smoothly? You're dysfunction-free.

DEFINITIONS OF: dysfunction

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

“erectile dysfunction”

“sexual relationship dysfunction”

Synonyms:: disfunction

Types:: show 13 types...; hide 13 types...; 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; akinesia, akinesis
motionlessness attributable to a temporary paralysis; alalia
paralysis of the vocal cords resulting in an inability to speak; cystoparalysis, cystoplegia
paralysis of the urinary bladder; diplegia
paralysis of corresponding parts on both sides of the body; Erb's palsy, Erb-Duchenne paralysis
paralysis of the arm resulting from injury to the brachial plexus (usually during childbirth); monoplegia
paralysis of a single limb; ophthalmoplegia
paralysis of the motor nerves of the eye; paresis
a slight or partial paralysis; paraplegia
paralysis of the lower half of the body (most often as a result of trauma); hemiplegia, unilateral paralysis
paralysis of one side of the body; quadriplegia
paralysis of both arms and both legs

Type of:: pathology
any deviation from a healthy or normal condition

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