Adisease orillness was a form of physical disorder. Some diseases had psychological impacts.

While onTerminus,Nyssa contractedLazar's disease but was accidentally cured of it. (TV:Terminus) She eventually found a permanent cure for the disease. (PROSE:Asylum,AUDIO:Cobwebs)

Alzheimer's disease made people senile and thus affected memory. TheSeventh Doctor toldAce thatTime Lords suffered from far worse mental diseases than Alzheimer's. (PROSE:Relative Dementias)

TheSisters of Plenitude ran ahospital nearNew New York onNew Earth where they had cures for nearly every known disease, includingMarconi's Disease andPetrifold Regression. Unfortunately, these cures were obtained from thousands of humanclones which they infected so they could harvest those cures. (TV:New Earth)

A disease was often the cause ofregeneration. (TV: Planet of the Spiders, The Caves of Androzani, The End of Time, Day of the Moon; AUDIO: The Brink of Death)

Slarn had the ability to psychosomatically incubate diseases within his body. Whilecaptain of theVipod Mor, he would release these diseases among the crew. (AUDIO:Slipback)

TheCOVID-19 disease spread acrossEarth in the year2020. (PROSE:Sweet Revenge)

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When theSaxon Master sought to join theTime Lords in theUltimate Sanction, a disgustedRassilon dismissed the Master as "diseased", albeit one of the Time Lords' own making. (TV:The End of Time^[+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"])

InA Brief History of Time Lords,the author likened theGallifreyans' diaspora acrossMutter's Spiral to build theFledgling Empires to either a tidal wave or a disease. (PROSE:A Brief History of Time Lords^[+]Loading...["A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)"])