wasting disease
1wasting disease — noun Generic description of a medical condition that causes pronounced loss of body mass. He suffered from a horrible wasting disease and lost 100 pounds in only two weeks …
2wasting disease — any disease marked by wasting (q.v.), such as anorexia cachexia syndrome or HIV wasting syndrome …
3wasting disease — noun involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body • Syn: ↑pulmonary tuberculosis, ↑consumption, ↑phthisis, ↑white plague • Hypernyms: ↑tuberculosis, ↑TB, ↑T.B. * * * …
4Chronic wasting disease — (CWD) is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) of mule deer, whitetailed deer, elk (wapiti), and moose. TSEs are caused by unusual infectious agents known as prions. To date, CWD has been found mainly in cervids (members of the deer… …
5Chronic Wasting Disease — Verbreitung der Chronic Wasting Disease 2007 Die Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD; deutsch wörtlich Chronische Auszehrungskrankheit) ist eine ansteckende Erkrankung des zentralen Nervensystems bei Hirschen, die zu den spongiformen Enzephalopathien… …
6Chronic Wasting Disease — La CWD (Chronic wasting disease) est une « encéphalopathie spongiforme transmissible » ; C est une maladie proche de la maladie de la vache folle (ou ESB), et de la maladie de Creutzfeldt Jakob chez l Homme, mais affectant semble t …
7Chronical Wasting Disease — Chronic Wasting Disease La CWD est une « encéphalopathie spongiforme transmissible », maladie proche de la maladie de la vache folle (ou ESB), ou chez l Homme proche de la maladie de Creutzfeldt Jakob, mais affectant semble t il… …
8Macaw Wasting Disease — Die Drüsenmagendilatation (Syn.: Neurogene oder Neuropathische Drüsenmagendilatation, Myogene Ganglioneuritis, Macaw Wasting Disease, Psittacine Proventricular Dilatation, PPD) ist eine schwere Erkrankung des Nervensystems bei Großpapageien, die… …
9Wasting — Wast ing, a. Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. [1913 Webster] {Wasting palsy} (Med.), progressive muscular atrophy. See under {Progressive}. [1913 Webster] …
10Wasting palsy — Wasting Wast ing, a. Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. [1913 Webster] {Wasting palsy} (Med.), progressive muscular atrophy. See under {Progressive}. [1913 Webster] …
