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(medicine, obsolete, East Indies) psoriasis of the tongue
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Synonym of male pattern baldness
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(medicine, obsolete) Any disease causing dull white or silvery spots on the skin, including non-contagious forms of leprosy and psoriasis.
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Alternative spelling of Behçet's disease [(medicine) A multi-system disorder involving ulcerations on the mouth and sometimes the genitals, notorious for causing hypopyon uveitis (actually a rare symptom).]
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Relating to blennorrhea.
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(veterinary medicine) sub-mandibular edema resulting from anemia usually caused by intestinal parasites.
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(medicine) Synonym of Brill-Zinsser disease.
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(medicine) A condition marked by having multiple carbuncles.
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(medicine) A disease resulting from Bartonella bacilliformis infection.
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(pathology) Skin lesion, sometimes associated with certain contagious diseases such as syphilis.
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(medicine) A rare disease, first characterized in the early 1990s, which resembles polio but which has somewhat different characteristics and occurs in persons vaccinated for polio.
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Synonym of Chinese restaurant syndrome
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(pathology) A manifestation of secondary syphilis, consisting of papular lesions along the hairline, often bordering the scalp in the manner of a crown.
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A chronic skin disease characterised by blisters filled with watery fluid, and visually resembling herpes.
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(slang) exercise-induced vasculitis
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(pathology) An abscess that fails to point or break.
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(pathology, obsolete) Synonym of leprosy.
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(pathology) An injury caused by contact with the toxic bristles of a caterpillar
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(medicine) An acute, sometimes recurrent febrile disease caused by infection of a hemolytic streptococcus, associated with intense edematous local inflammation of the skin and subcutaneous tissues, and marked by large raised red patches on the skin.
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(medicine) A mild cutaneous infection by Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae in humans.
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(pathology) The rash often seen in the early stage of Lyme disease.
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The ulcerative type of dermal leishmaniasis, with secondary manifestations in the nose and mouth, occurring in parts of South America.
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(medicine) The presence of furuncles or boils.
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(medicine) The cauda equina syndrome.
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A respiratory infection in dogs, canine infectious respiratory disease, formerly canine infectious tracheobronchitis.
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(medicine) Clustered white lesions on the buccal mucosa, a prodromic viral enanthem of measles.
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Synonym of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
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A genetic condition of cattle, sheep, etc. resulting in abnormally large offspring.
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An infectious disease caused by Legionella bacteria, taking one of two distinct forms: Legionnaires' disease and Pontiac fever.
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(informal, pathology) Abbreviation of leptospirosis. [An acute, infectious, febrile disease of both humans and animals, caused by spirochetes of the genus Leptospira.]
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Alternative form of louping ill. [An enzootic and often fatal viral disease of sheep and other domestic animals, spread by ticks. It is characterized by muscular tremors and spasms, followed by more or less complete paralysis. The principal lesion is an inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord.]
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(medicine, archaic) Synonym of parasyphilis.
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(medicine) The disease scurvy, especially in infants.
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(medicine) The disease scurvy, especially in infants.
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A form of the disease noma that causes tissue damage to the genitals.
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Alternative letter-case form of nosema disease (“infectious disease of some insects caused by some microsporidian parasites”) [An infectious disease of some insects caused by some microsporidian parasites of the genus Nosema.]
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(medicine) Cutaneous leishmaniasis.
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(pathology) A disease similar to tuberculosis in which the living bacillus is not present
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(pathology) a rash, verruca necrogenica, of small, red papular nodules in the skin caused by inoculation with Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a previously infected and immunocompetent person.
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An irregularly-shaped alopecia that may begin in a moth-eaten pattern with eventual coalescence into larger patches.
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(medicine, dated) A syndrome with the characteristics of tabes (especially tabes dorsalis) that is not caused by syphilis.
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(medicine) An infection by Chlamydia bacteria, caught from infected birds, and characterised by fever, pneumonia and headaches.
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(medicine) A noncontagious disease whose main symptom is gray or silvery flaky patches on the skin which are red and inflamed underneath when scratched.
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(medicine) A contagious disease, once endemic in Scotland, resembling the yaws and marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body.
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Also, animal trypanosomiasis, also known as nagana or animal African trypanosomiasis
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A dermatological condition caused by Staphylococcus aureus bacteria.
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A form of arthritis accompanied by fevers and rashes.
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(medicine) Of, relating to, or infected with syphilis.
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(medicine) A cutaneous condition due to syphilis.
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(pathology, countable) A serious and often fatal disease caused by the infection of an open wound with the anaerobic bacterium Clostridium tetani, found in soil and the intestines and faeces of animals.
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(medicine) Any of a group of skin conditions associated with an underlying or silent focus of tuberculosis.
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Obsolete spelling of tularemia [(medicine) An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis.]
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An infectious sore, usually on the hands or feet, that is a symptom of cutaneous diphtheria.
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A rare systemic infectious disease caused by the bacterium Tropheryma whipplei, primarily causing malabsorption but also affecting other parts of the body.
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(medicine) A contagious tropical disease, caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, which often resemble berries.
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