diseases (noun)
51Center for Disease Control and Prevention — noun a federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services; located in Atlanta; investigates and diagnoses and tries to control or prevent diseases (especially new and unusual diseases) • Syn: ↑CDC • Hypernyms: ↑agency, ↑federal agency …
52tzetze fly — noun bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc. • Syn: ↑tsetse fly, ↑tsetse, ↑tzetze, ↑glossina • Hypernyms: ↑fly • Member Holonyms: ↑genus Glossina …
53black root rot — noun : any of several diseases of plants marked by dark often confluent lesions of the root and sometimes the crown often involving the whole cortex: as a. : a disease of apples caused by a fungus (Xylaria mali) b. : a disease of tobacco and… …
54foulbrood — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun : any of three destructive bacterial diseases of the larvae of the honeybee: a. : american foulbrood b. : european foulbrood c. : parafoulbrood * * * /fowl broohd …
55leaf stripe — noun : any of several diseases of plants causing striped discolorations on the leaves (as virus diseases of sugarcane or barley stripe) …
56mercuric oxide — noun : a slightly water soluble crystalline poisonous compound HgO known in two forms (1) a yellow finely divided powder obtained usually by precipitation from solutions of mercury chloride (sense b) and sodium hydroxide and used chiefly in… …
57nephritic wood — noun 1. : the wood of the rosilla tree formerly used in an infusion for kidney diseases 2. : the wood of the East Indian horseradish tree formerly used in an infusion for kidney diseases …
58fifth disease — noun Etymology: probably translation of French cinquième maladie; so called because it was the fifth of five exanthematous childhood diseases known at the time of its description (1928) : an acute eruptive disease especially of children that is… …
59anaphylactic shock — noun a severe and rapid and sometimes fatal hypersensitivity reaction to a substance (especially a vaccine or penicillin or shellfish or insect venom) to which the organism has become sensitized by previous exposure • Hypernyms: ↑anaphylaxis * *… …
60Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease — noun rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus; characterized by progressive dementia and gradual loss of muscle control • Syn: ↑CJD, ↑Jakob Creutzfeldt disease • Hypernyms: ↑brain disorder,… …
