In medical jurisprudence, one which prevents, ob-structs, or interferes with the due perforin-ance of its special functions by any organ of the body, without anatomical defect or ab-normality in the organ itself. See Higbee v. Guardian Mut. L. Ins. Co., 66 Barb. (N. Y.) 472. Distinguished from “organic” disease, which is due to some injury to, or lesion or malformation in, the organ in question
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
