FUNCTIONAL

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official.

2.
a.

Pertaining to the function of an organ or part, or to the functions in general. Functional disease (Med.), a disease of which the symptoms cannot be referred to any appreciable lesion or change of structure; the derangement of an organ arising from a cause, often unknown, external to itself opposed to organic disease, in which the organ itself is affected.