Definition of a-disease in English English dictionary
- Addison's disease
- a disorder in which the adrenal glands fail to produce a sufficient quantity of steroids, causing a brownish discoloration of the skin
Nearly thirty years before the date of Addison's discovery, his eminent colleague, Dr. Bright, had observed and recorded, in his celebrated 'Reports of Medical Cases,' a case of Addison's disease.
- Alzheimer's disease
- A disorder involving loss of mental functions resulting from brain tissue changes; senile dementia of Alzheimer's type
- Armenian disease
- familial Mediterranean fever
- Barlow's disease
- The disease scurvy in infants
- Bayoud disease
- A disease of date palms, caused by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum
- Behcet's disease
- Alternative spelling of Behçet's disease
- Behçet's disease
- A multi-system disorder involving ulcerations on the mouth and sometimes the genitals, notorious for causing hypopyon uveitis (actually a rare symptom)
- Bright's disease
- Any of several diseases of the kidney characterized by inflammation, and the presence of albumin in the urine; nephritis
- Brill-Zinsser disease
- A delayed relapse of epidemic typhus, occurring some time after the original infection
- Cheadle's disease
- The disease scurvy, especially in infants
- Christmas disease
- haemophilia B
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- A rare, progressive, currently fatal disease of the nervous system, characterized by dementia and loss of muscle control. A prion disease, apparently transmissible from animals to humans by eating infected tissue, as well as from tissue interchanges among humans (corneal transplants, blood transfusions)
- Crohn's disease
- Crohn’s regional enteritis, a chronic inflammatory disease that can involve any part of the digestive tract from the mouth to the anus
- Dutch elm disease
- A disease of elm trees caused by an Ascomycete fungus and spread by bark beetles
- Gaucher's disease
- A genetic disease in which lipid accumulates in cells and certain organs
- Graves' disease
- Hyperthyroidism accompanied by protrusion of the eyeballs
- Hansen's disease
- The disease leprosy
- Hirschsprung's disease
- Congenital aganglionic megacolon, a disorder in which the bowel is obstructed by an aganglionic section of bowel and the colon becomes enlarged
- Hodgkin's disease
- The former name of Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Huntington's disease
- the former name of Huntington's chorea
- Johne's disease
- a chronic, contagious and often fatal disease of cattle, sheep and goats, caused by the intestinal bacterium Mycobacterium paratuberculosis, characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes of the gastrointestinal tract
- Kashin-Beck disease
- An osteoarticular disease that occurs mainly in China and causes pain and restriction of movement in the joints
- Kashin-Bek disease
- Alternative form of Kashin-Beck disease
- Kawasaki disease
- an illness of childhood that causes fever, lymphadenopathy, elevated platelet count, and a variety of other symptoms
- Kienbock's disease
- A painful disease of the wrist that results from loss of circulation to the lunate bone
- Lou Gehrig's disease
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a form of motor neuron disease
- Lyme disease
- Infection by a bacterium of the genus Borrelia which is transmitted by ticks. Symptoms include a rash followed by fever, joint pain, and headaches
- MEB disease
- muscle-eye-brain disease
- Marburg disease
- A viral infection characterised by a high fever, encephalitis, diarrhea, vomiting, and severe bleeding from bodily orifices, and which is often fatal
- Marie's disease
- The disease hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy
- Marie's disease
- The disease acromegaly
- McArdle's disease
- Glycogen storage disease type V, a metabolic disorder caused by a deficiency of myophosphorylase
- Minamata disease
- A neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning
- Moeller's disease
- The disease scurvy, especially in infants
- Ménière's disease
- A disorder of the inner ear, caused by lymphatic channel dilation and characterized by episodes of dizziness and tinnitus and progressive hearing loss, usually in one ear
- Möller-Barlow disease
- The disease scurvy, especially in infants
- Newcastle disease
- A highly contagious disease of poultry
- Paget's disease
- The bone disease osteitis deformans
- Parkinson's disease
- A chronic neurological disorder resulting in lack of control over movement; poor balance and coordination; and similar symptoms
- Peyronie's disease
- A connective tissue disorder involving the growth of fibrous plaques in the soft tissue of the penis, causing abnormal curvature
- Raynaud's disease
- A disease characterized by low blood flow to the fingers, toes, and/or ears
- Refsum's disease
- A peroxisomal neurological disease that results in the malformation of myelin sheaths around nerve cells
- Salla disease
- An autosomal-recessive lysosomal storage disease characterized by early physical impairment and mental retardation
- Wilson's disease
- An autosomal-recessive genetic disorder in which copper accumulates in tissues, resulting in neurological or psychiatric symptoms and liver disease
- Zuska's disease
- A rare recurrent condition characterized by draining abscesses around the nipple
- bronze disease
- Addison's disease
- caisson disease
- The painful condition in which bubbles of nitrogen form in body tissues after a person makes too-rapid a transition from high atmospheric pressure to lower atmospheric pressure
- calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate deposition disease
- A medical condition, also called pseudogout or CPPD, which resembles gout but results from precipitation of crystals in the joints by a different compound
- celiac disease
- US spelling of coeliac disease
- chronic granulomatous disease
- Any of a group of hereditary defects in the ability of some phagocytes to kill certain bacteria; the resulting infection
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- A group of diseases characterized by the pathological limitation of airflow in the airway that is not fully reversible. May be caused by reactive airways, chronic infection, congenital defects, or, most commonly, cigarette smoking. Generally does not include neoplasms, which could also obstruct airways
- coeliac disease
- An auto-immune disease characterised by sensitivity of the lining of the small intestine to gluten, causing a failure to digest food properly
- coronary artery disease
- Any disease caused by the accumulation of fatty deposits in the coronary arteries that supply blood to the myocardium
- coronary heart disease
- Any disease caused by the accumulation of fatty deposits in the coronary arteries that supply blood to the myocardium
- disease
- Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc
War is not man's great and terrible disease; war is a symptom, a result. The real disease is the virus of national sovereignty.
- disease
- An abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired
The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and fruit withered.
- disease
- To infect with a disease
- disease
- To cause unease; to annoy, irritate
mote he soft himselfe appease, / And fairely fare on foot, how euer loth; / His double burden did him sore disease.
- fifth disease
- The manifestation as rashes of a particular viral infection
- food-borne disease
- A disease which is contracted from eating contaminated food
- foot-and-mouth disease
- A highly contagious and sometimes fatal viral disease that can affect animals with cloven hooves
So Joe starts telling the citizen about the foot and mouth disease and the cattle traders and taking action in the matter and the citizen sending them all to the rightabout and Bloom coming out with his sheepdip for the scab and a hoose drench for coughing calves and the guaranteed remedy for timber tongue.
- foot-in-mouth disease
- A tendency to make remarks that are embarrassingly wrong or inappropriate
Maybe you suffer from foot-in-mouth disease, too, at least occasionally. If so, then I expect you've also learned about the remedy.
- green monkey disease
- A viral disease of humans and primates originating in green monkeys, caused by the Marburg virus
- hemolytic disease
- especially erythroblastosis fetalis
- hemolytic disease
- A hemolytic disease (one that destroys red blood cells releasing hemoglobin)
- industrial disease
- disease or disability caused by employment, such as repetitive acts or exposure to chemicals
- kissing disease
- Nickname for mononucleosis
It was in a college, West Point, that infectious mononucleosis won a romantic reputation. . . . Investigators at a girls' school also found post-vacation peaks, and mono became known as the kissing disease.
- mad cow disease
- bovine spongiform encephalopathy
- motor neuron disease
- Any of a group of progressive neurological disorders attacking motor neurons
- muscle-eye-brain disease
- A congenital muscular dystrophy associated with severe myopia or glaucoma and mental retardation or hydrocephalus
- parrot disease
- psittacosis
- plant disease
- A disease that affects plants
- pulseless disease
- Takayasu's arteritis
- sexually transmitted disease
- Any of various diseases that are usually contracted through sexual contact
- sickle-cell disease
- A disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells
- tropical disease
- any infectious disease which occurs only, or more often, in tropical or subtropical regions
- venereal disease
- Any of several contagious diseases, such as syphilis and gonorrhea, contracted through sexual intercourse
- von Willebrand disease
- An hereditary disease, characterized by a tendency to hemorrhage, and caused by a defect in blood platelet activity
- von Willebrand's disease
- An hereditary disease, characterized by a tendency to hemorrhage, and caused by a defect in blood platelet activity
- wasting disease
- Generic description of a medical condition that causes pronounced loss of body mass
He suffered from a horrible wasting disease and lost 100 pounds in only two weeks.
- winter vomiting disease
- The gastroenteritic illness caused by noroviruses
epidemic collapse, epidemic nausea and vomiting, winter vomiting disease, severe gastroenteritis in infants and children, and sporadic gastroenteritis.
- disease
- {i} sickness, illness
- disease
- An involuntary disability Alcoholism is a chronic disease consisting of genetic, psychosocial, and environmental elements
- Non-infectious disease
- A non-communicable disease, or NCD, is a medical condition or disease, which by definition is non-infectious and non-transmissible among people
- non-transmissible disease
- A non-communicable disease, or NCD, is a medical condition or disease, which by definition is non-infectious and non-transmissible among people
- disease
- {v} to afflict, vex, torment, pain, infect
- disease
- {n} a distempter, sickness, uneasiness, pain
- Chronic Lung Disease of Infancy
- Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD; formerly Chronic Lung Disease of Infancy) is a chronic lung disorder that is most common among children who were born prematurely, with low birthweights and who received prolonged mechanical ventilation to treat respiratory distress syndrome
- Johne's disease
- (Tıp, İlaç) Johne's disease (pronounced "yo-knees") is a contagious, chronic and usually fatal infection that affects primarily the small intestine of ruminants. A ruminant is any hooved animal that digests its food in two steps, first by eating the raw material then regurgitating and eating a semi-digested form known as cud. Ruminants include cattle, goats, sheep, camels, llamas, giraffes, bison, buffalo, deer, wildebeest, and antelope. All ruminants are susceptible to Johne's disease, which is sometimes called paratuberculosis. The disease is worldwide in distribution
- Mitchell's disease
- (Tıp, İlaç) Erythromelalgia, also known as Mitchell's disease (after Silas Weir Mitchell), acromelalgia, red neuralgia, or erythermalgia, is a rare neurovascular peripheral pain disorder in which blood vessels, usually in the lower extremities (or hands), are episodically blocked (frequently on and off daily), then become hyperemic and inflamed
- bleeder's disease
- (Tıp, İlaç) A nontechnical name for haemophilia
- bluetongue disease
- (Hayvan Bilim, Zooloji) Bluetongue disease (also called catarrhal fever) is a non-contagious, insect-borne viral disease of ruminants, mainly sheep and less frequently of cattle, goats, buffalo, deer, dromedaries and antelope. There are no reports of human transmission. It is caused by the Bluetongue virus
- communicable disease
- (Tıp, İlaç) A communicable disease is a medical condition or disease which by definition is infectious and transmissable between persons
- disease
- Sickness; illness; an interruption, or disturbance of the bodily functions or organs, which causes or threatens pain and weakness
- guinea worm disease
- (Tıp, İlaç) A disease that is caused by infestation with the guinea worm and that has been eradicated in most regions except Africa ― called also dracunculiasis
- mad-cow disease
- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad-cow disease, is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle, which infects by a mechanism that surprised biologists upon its discovery in the late 20th century
- rabbit calicivirus disease
- (Tıp, İlaç) Rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD), also known as rabbit calicivirus disease (RCD), is an infectious disease that affects only rabbits. It targets the hepatocytes of infected rabbits, leading to disseminated intravascular coagulation. The incubation period is 24 to 48 hours and death occurs 6 to 24 hours from the start of fever. The disease is highly infectious, and is spread by the rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus