symptom
Webster Dictionary
any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease; as, the causes of disease often lie beyond our sight, but we learn their nature by the symptoms exhibited
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secondary
Webster Dictionary
dependent or consequent upon another disease; as, Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever. (b) Occuring in the second stage of a disease; as, the secondary symptoms of syphilis
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fit
Webster Dictionary
a sudden and violent attack of a disorder; a stroke of disease, as of epilepsy or apoplexy, which produces convulsions or unconsciousness; a convulsion; a paroxysm; hence, a period of exacerbation of a disease; in general, an attack of disease; as, a fit of sickness
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complication
(ˌkɒm plɪˈkeɪ ʃən)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a concurrent disease, accident, or adverse reaction that aggravates the original disease.
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allopathy
(əˈlɒp ə θi)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the method of treating disease by the use of agents that produce effects different from those of the disease treated
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antiserum
(ˌsɪər ə)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
animal or human serum that contains antibodies to a specific disease, used for injections to confer passive immunity to that disease.
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homeopathy
(ˌhoʊ miˈɒp ə θi)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a method of treating disease by minute doses of drugs that in a healthy person would produce symptoms similar to those of the disease
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immunotherapy
(ˌɪm yə noʊˈθɛr ə pi, ɪˌmyu-)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
treatment designed to produce immunity to a disease or enhance the resistance of the immune system to an active disease process, as cancer.
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pathognomonic
Webster Dictionary
specially or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom
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pestilence
Webster Dictionary
specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating
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idiopathy
Webster Dictionary
a morbid state or condition not preceded or occasioned by any other disease; a primary disease
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hyperpyrexia
Webster Dictionary
a condition of excessive fever; an elevation of temperature in a disease, in excess of the limit usually observed in that disease
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neurosis
Webster Dictionary
a functional nervous affection or disease, that is, a disease of the nerves without any appreciable change of nerve structure
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infection
Webster Dictionary
that which infects, or causes the communicated disease; any effluvium, miasm, or pestilential matter by which an infectious disease is caused
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chemotherapy
(ˌki moʊˈθɛr ə pi, ˌkɛm oʊ-)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the treatment of disease by means of chemicals that have a specific toxic effect upon the disease-producing microorganisms or that selectively destroy cancerous tissue.
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complication
Webster Dictionary
a disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it
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remedy
Webster Dictionary
that which relieves or cures a disease; any medicine or application which puts an end to disease and restores health; -- with for; as, a remedy for the gout
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isopathy
Webster Dictionary
the system which undertakes to cure a disease by means of the virus of the same disease
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sequela
Webster Dictionary
a morbid phenomenon left as the result of a disease; a disease resulting from another
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systemic lupus erythematosus
(ˌɛr əˌθi məˈtoʊ səs, -ˌθɛm ə-)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
an autoimmune inflammatory disease of the connective tissues, chiefly characterized by skin eruptions, joint pain, recurrent pleurisy, and kidney disease.
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idiopathical
Webster Dictionary
pertaining to idiopathy; characterizing a disease arising primarily, and not in consequence of some other disease or injury; -- opposed to symptomatic, sympathetic, and traumatic
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contagion
Webster Dictionary
that which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease
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chlamydia
(ˈmɪd iˌi)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a widespread, often asymptomatic sexually transmitted disease caused by Chlamydia trachomatis, a major cause of nongonococcal urethritis in men and pelvic inflammatory disease and ectopic pregnancy in women.
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remission
Webster Dictionary
a temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in which the disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement
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convalescency
Webster Dictionary
the recovery of heath and strength after disease; the state of a body renewing its vigor after sickness or weakness; the time between the subsidence of a disease and complete restoration to health
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epidemic
(ˌɛp ɪˈdɛm ɪk)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
(of a disease) affecting many individuals at the same time, and spreading from person to person in a locality where the disease is not permanently prevalent.
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intercurrent
(ˌɪn tərˈkɜr ənt, -ˈkʌr-)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
(of a disease) occurring while another disease is in progress.
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pip
Webster Dictionary
a contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a "scale" on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them
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plica
Webster Dictionary
a disease of the hair (Plica polonica), in which it becomes twisted and matted together. The disease is of Polish origin, and is hence called also Polish plait
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preclinical
(preclinical, presymptomatic)
Princeton's WordNet
of or relating to the early phases of a disease when accurate diagnosis is not possible because symptoms of the disease have not yet appeared
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