Dieseases
Terms
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- AIDS
- Accuired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
- Conjunctivitis
- also known as pink eye
- Cataract
- opaqueing of lens
- Glaucoma
- increaed pressure in the eye
- Legionnaire's disease
- respritory disease named after the epidemc that broke out at the 1976 American Legionnaires confrence in Philadelphia due to faulty air conditioners
- Scarlet Fever
- symptom: Strawberry tongue
- Whooping Cough
- also known as Pertussis
- DTP vaccine
- for Diptheira, Tetnus, and Pertussis
- Tuberculosis
- caused by Mycobacterium
- Botulism and Salmonella
- types of bacterial food poisoning
- Typhoid Fever
- Typhoid Mary (Mary Mallon) was a carrier (infected but shows no symptoms of the disease)
- Meningitis
- swelling of brain or spinal cord coverings (meinges)
- Syphilis
- infected Hitler
- Leprosy
- also known as Hahsen's disease
- Lyme Disease
- Identified in the Lyme. spread by ticks
- Tetnus
- also known as lock jaw
- Chicken Pox
- also known as Varicella
- Herpes Zoster
- also known as Shingles
- Measles
- also known as Rubeola
- German Measles
- also known as Rubella or three day Measles
- Encephalitis
- inflammation of brain
- Tinea pedis
- Atheletes foot
- Malaria
- spread by Anopheles mosquito
- Trichinosis
- food poisoning usually from raw pork
- Hypertension
- High Blood Pressure
- Metathesis
- Spreading of cancer
- Malignant tumor
- Dangerous (cancerous)
- Benign tumor
- not Dangerous (non-cancerous)
- Leukemia
- Cancer of White Blood cells
- Multiple myeloma
- Bone marrow cancer
- Melanoma
- Skin cancer
- Cirrhosis
- Disease of liver
- Lithotripsy
- uses ultrasonic sound waves to destroy kidney stones
- Scoliosis
- Laternal curvature of the spine
- Epilepsy
- seisure disorder cused by disturbed brain electrical patterns
- Parkinson's diease
- Treatment with L-Dopa; subject of movie "Awakenings"
- Sickle cell anemia
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predominantly in blacks
Immune to Malaria - Cystic Fibrosis
- thick mucous secreations in lungs
- Phenylketonuria (PKU)
- inability to digest amino acid phenylalanine
- SIDS
- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
- Bubonic Plague
- "Black Death" spread by fleas