| Addison's disease |
a disease caused by disturbance or failure of the adrenal glands, resulting in anemia, low blood pressure, weakness, and an abnormal brownish tinge to the skin. |
| Alzheimer's disease |
a severe, progressive disease that causes the brain cells to degenerate, often leading to dementia. |
| Bright's disease |
chronic inflammation of the blood vessels in the kidneys. |
| Brill's disease |
a form of typhus considered to be a recurrence of a much earlier infection. |
| caisson disease |
see "aeroembolism." |
| celiac disease |
a disease caused by an inability to properly digest gluten, characterized by malnutrition and diarrhea. |
| Cushing's disease |
a disease caused by a tumor in the pituitary gland and characterized by obesity, hypertension, muscular weakness, and diabetes. |
| deficiency disease |
a disease caused by lack of a specific nutrient in the diet, or by the body's inability to absorb or metabolize it. |
| disease resistance |
in an organism or group of organisms, a quality of low susceptibility to disease. |
| disease-resistent |
of or pertaining to disease resistance. |
| disease-ridden |
full of or capable of bringing about disease. |
| Dutch elm disease |
a serious disease of elms that causes yellow, wilted leaves, streaked wood, and ultimately the death of the tree. |
| foot-and-mouth disease |
a severe, very contagious disease of animals such as sheep and cattle, characterized by fever and blisters in the mouth and around the feet or hooves, the teats, and the udder; hoof-and-mouth disease. |
| Graves' disease |
a disorder characterized by excessive thyroid secretion that causes enlargement of the thyroid and higher basal metabolism and pulse rate. |
| Hansen's disease |
leprosy. |
| Hodgkin's disease |
a progressive, sometimes fatal disease in which the lymph tissues, spleen, and kidneys become enlarged or inflamed. |
| hoof-and-mouth disease |
see "foot-and-mouth disease." |
| itai-itai disease |
a painful degenerative bone disease contracted by ingesting water or food that has been polluted by industrial cadmium waste. |
| loco disease |
a nervous disease of livestock, caused by locoweed poisoning and involving dullness, clumsiness, and partial paralysis. |
| Lou Gehrig's disease |
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. |