DISFUNCTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disfunction mean? 

• DISFUNCTION (noun)
  The noun DISFUNCTION has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: DISFUNCTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISFUNCTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

disfunction; dysfunction

Context example:

sexual relationship dysfunction

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)