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 disease., 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 disease. 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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