Encyclopedia - Disease: Encyclopedia - Disease
A disease is any abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort, dysfunction, or distress to the person affected or those ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tropical Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Tropical Disease - Diseases
The Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) of the World Health Organization focuses on neglected infectio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Disease - Transmission Of Disease
Some diseases, such as influenza, are contagious or infectious, and can be transmitted by any of a variety of mechanisms, including dropl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Disease - Social Significance Of Disease
The identification of a condition as a disease, rather than as simply a variation of human structure or function, can have significant so...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blackhead Disease: Encyclopedia - Blackhead Disease
Blackhead disease is an avian disease that affects chickens, turkeys and other poultry. It is a commercially important disease. The proto...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Whipple's Disease: Encyclopedia - Whipple's Disease
Whipple's disease is a rare disease caused by the bacteria Tropheryma whipplei. It was first described by George Hoyt Whipple in 1907. Wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Periodontal Disease: Encyclopedia - Periodontal Disease
Periodontal disease is the name for bacterial infections of the gums in the mouth. In most cases this disease is linked to poor oral hygi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wilson's Disease: Encyclopedia - Wilson's Disease
Wilson's disease or lentigohepatic degeneration is an autosomal recessive hereditary disease, with an incidence of about 1 in 30,000. Its...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bright's Disease: Encyclopedia - Bright's Disease
Bright's disease is a historical classification of kidney diseases that would be described in modern medicine as acute or chronic nephrit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canavan Disease: Encyclopedia - Canavan Disease
Canavan disease is an inherited disorder that causes progressive damage to nerve cells in the brain. This disease is one of a group of ge...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Autoimmune Diseases: Encyclopedia - Autoimmune Diseases
Autoimmune diseases arise from an overactive immune response of the body against substances and tissues normally present in the body. In ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blood Diseases: Encyclopedia - Blood Diseases
Blood diseases affect the production of blood and its components, such as blood cells, hemoglobin, blood proteins, the mechanism of coagu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bluetongue Disease: Encyclopedia - Bluetongue Disease
Bluetongue disease (also called catarrhal fever) is a non-contagious, arthropod-borne viral disease of ruminants, mainly sheep and less f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cardiovascular Disease: Encyclopedia - Cardiovascular Disease
Cardiovascular disease refers to the class of diseases that involve the heart and/or blood vessels (arteries and veins). While the term t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alzheimer's Disease: Encyclopedia - Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD), a neurodegenerative disorder, is the most common cause of dementia and characterised clinically by progressive ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crohn's Disease: Encyclopedia - Crohn's Disease
Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammatory disease of the digestive tract and it can involve any part of it, from the mouth to the anus. I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Addison's Disease: Encyclopedia - Addison's Disease
Addison's disease (also known as chronic adrenal insufficiency, or hypocortisolism) is a rare endocrine disorder, first described by Brit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victory Disease: Encyclopedia - Victory Disease
Victory disease happens when a nation, army or commander has previous military victories and falls for some combination of: arrogance, a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coeliac Disease: Encyclopedia - Coeliac Disease
Coeliac disease (also called celiac disease, non-tropical sprue, c(o)eliac sprue and gluten intolerance) is a digestive disorder. It is c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bowen's Disease: Encyclopedia - Bowen's Disease
In medicine (dermatology), Bowen's disease (BD) is a sunlight-induced skin disease, considered either as an early stage or intraepidermal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coronary Heart Disease: Encyclopedia - Coronary Heart Disease
Coronary heart disease (CHD), also called coronary artery disease (CAD) and atherosclerotic heart disease, is the end result of the accum...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chorea Disease: Encyclopedia - Chorea Disease
Chorea (also known as St. Vitus dance) is an abnormal voluntary movement disorder, one of a group of neurological disorders called dyskin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Creutzfeldt-jakob Disease: Encyclopedia - Creutzfeldt-jakob Disease
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) is a very rare and incurable brain disease that is ultimately fatal. It is the most common of the transmi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chronic Granulomatous Disease: Encyclopedia - Chronic Granulomatous Disease
In medicine (genetics and pediatrics) chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is a hereditary disease where neutrophil granulocytes are unabl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Contagious Diseases Acts: Encyclopedia - Contagious Diseases Acts
The Contagious Diseases Acts were passed by several different European nations during the middle of the nineteenth century (starting from...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Disease: Oceanography Dictionary - Disease
  Definition and meaning of disease:   disease - any impairment of an organism's vital functions or systems, including in...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Disease: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Disease
Disease Broadly stated, disease is a disordered or inharmonious vital state of the organism, with more of less excess, defect, or perv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Autoimmune Diseases: Encyclopedia Ii - Autoimmune Diseases - Autoimmune Diseases
Autoimmune diseases - Accepted. Diseases with a complete or partial autoimmune etiology: Crohn's disease is a form of inflammatory bow...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Autoimmune Diseases: Encyclopedia Ii - Autoimmune Diseases - Autoimmune Diseases
Autoimmune diseases - Accepted. Diseases with a complete or partial autoimmune etiology: Crohn's disease is a form of inflammatory bow...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parkinson's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Parkinson's Disease - Related Diseases
Parkinson's disease - Parkinson-Plus diseases. There are other disorders that are called Parkinson-Plus diseases. These include: Multi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parkinson's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Parkinson's Disease - Related Diseases
Parkinson's disease - Parkinson-Plus diseases. There are other disorders that are called Parkinson-Plus diseases. These include: Multi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Raynaud's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Raynaud's Disease - Disease Vs. Phenomenon
It is important to distinguish Raynaud's disease from Raynaud's phenomenon. In order to diagnose these two forms of Raynaud's, your docto...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Whipple's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Whipple's Disease - Diagnosis
Diagnosis is made by intestinal biopsy, which shows as PAS-positive inclusions. At times, small bowel X-rays may show some thickened fold...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parkinson's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Parkinson's Disease - Symptoms
Parkinson's disease - Cardinal symptoms. Symptoms may vary among patients, and additionally may vary greatly over time in a single pati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Raynaud's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Raynaud's Disease - Treatment
The severity of the disease runs from mild to severe. In people with mild cases, this may be simply an annoyance. More serious cases requ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Menkes Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Menkes Disease - Genetics
Mutations in the ATP7A gene cause Menkes syndrome. As the result of a mutation in the ATP7A gene, copper is poorly distributed to cells i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alzheimer's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Alzheimer's Disease - Epidemiology
Alzheimer's disease is the most frequent type of dementia in the elderly and affects almost half of all patients with dementia. 2-3% of p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wilson's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Wilson's Disease - Treatment
The disease is treated with lifelong use of chelating agents such as D-penicillamine or trientine hydrochloride, drugs that help remove c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Panama Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Panama Disease - History
Gros Michel or 'Big Mike' was an early export cultivar of banana. This cultivar was wiped out by Panama disease in the 1950s. Although th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Huntington's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Huntington's Disease - Genetics
Huntington's disease is inherited in autosomal dominant fashion, meaning that it is a dominant allele. People with Huntington's disease h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alzheimer's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Alzheimer's Disease - Epidemiology
Alzheimer's disease is the most frequent type of dementia in the elderly and affects almost half of all patients with dementia. 2-3% of p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cardiovascular Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Cardiovascular Disease - Research
The causes, prevention, and treatment of all forms of cardiovascular disease are active fields of biomedical research, with hundreds of s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wilson's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Wilson's Disease - Description
The Wilson's disease gene (WND) has been mapped to chromosome 13 (13q14.3) and is expressed primarily in the liver, kidney, and placenta ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Raynaud's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Raynaud's Disease - Symptoms
The symptoms include several cyclic color changes: When exposed to cold temperatures, the oxygen supply to the fingertips, toes, and ear...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alzheimer's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Alzheimer's Disease - History
The symptoms of the disease as a distinct entity were first identified by Emil Kraepelin, and the characteristic neuropathology was first...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alzheimer's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Alzheimer's Disease - Treatment
There is no cure, although there are drugs which temporarily reduce neurotransmitter degradation and alleviate some of the symptoms of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alzheimer's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Alzheimer's Disease - Pathology
Alzheimer's disease - Microscopy. There are several changes found in the brain in AD (in order of appearance): The deposition of an ab...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coeliac Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Coeliac Disease - Epidemiology
Susceptibility to coeliac disease is genetic and many cases are diagnosed in childhood, but the disease can be triggered by environmental...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alzheimer's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Alzheimer's Disease - Diagnosis
The diagnosis is made primarily by clinical observation and tests of memory and intellectual functioning over a series of weeks or months...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lyme Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Lyme Disease - Microbiology
The disease is caused by the parasite Borrelia, which has well over three hundred known genomic strains but is usually cultured as Borrel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Still's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Still's Disease - Symptoms
Patients with Still's disease usually have body wide symptoms. Usual symptoms include: waves of high fevers that rise to 40 °C (104 °F...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rare Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Rare Disease - Prevalence
As a guide, low prevalence is taken as prevalence of less than 5 per 10,000 in the community [1]. The NIH's Office of Rare Diseases state...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parkinson's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Parkinson's Disease - Diagnosis
Parkinson's disease - Differential diagnosis. The differential diagnosis for a patient presenting with Parkinsonian symptoms is: Idiop...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parkinson's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Parkinson's Disease - Diagnosis
Parkinson's disease - Differential diagnosis. The differential diagnosis for a patient presenting with Parkinsonian symptoms is: Idiop...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Huntington's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Huntington's Disease - Diagnosis
Symptoms of Huntington's disease begin increasingly early the more glutamines a person carries within the repeating portion of his or her...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cardiovascular Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Cardiovascular Disease - Forms
Cardiovascular disease usually occurs as a result of arterial damage. The symptoms and treatments depend on which set (or sets) of arteri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crohn's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Crohn's Disease - Causes
Crohn's disease - Barrier problem and autoimmunity to the luminal flora. The efficacy of immunosuppression, as well as scanty reports o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lyme Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Lyme Disease - Transmission
In Europe, Ixodes ricinus, known commonly as the sheep tick, castor bean tick, or European castor bean tick is the transmitter. In North ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parkinson's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Parkinson's Disease - Symptoms
Parkinson's disease - Cardinal symptoms. Symptoms may vary among patients, and additionally may vary greatly over time in a single pati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gaucher's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Gaucher's Disease - Pathophysiology
The disease is caused by a defect in the housekeeping gene lysosomal gluco-cerebrosidase (also known as β-glucosidase, EC 3.2.1.45, PDB ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alzheimer's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Alzheimer's Disease - Prevention
Efforts to find effective treatments for Alzheimer's after-the-fact have so far been disappointing. Age is the primary risk factor for Al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gaucher's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Gaucher's Disease - Treatment
For type 1 and most type 3 patients, enzyme replacement treatment with mannose-terminated recombinant glucocerebrosidase, 60 Units/kg, gi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pick's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Pick's Disease - Characteristics
Symptoms may include a decline in social behavior (including disinhibition, tactlessness, and breaches of interpersonal etiquette), emoti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lyme Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Lyme Disease - Symptoms
Lyme disease has many symptoms, but skin symptoms, arthritis and various neurological symptoms are usually present. Conventional therapy ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parkinson's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Parkinson's Disease - Treatment
The treatment of Parkinson's disease mainly relies on replacing dopamine with levodopa (L-DOPA) or mimicking its action with dopamine ago...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Infectious Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Infectious Disease - Basics
Infectious diseases are mostly caused by tiny microorganisms, often called microbes, that are invisible to the naked eye. Microbes that c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parkinson's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Parkinson's Disease - Treatment
The treatment of Parkinson's disease mainly relies on replacing dopamine with levodopa (L-DOPA) or mimicking its action with dopamine ago...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lyme Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Lyme Disease - History
The disease was first documented as a skin rash in Europe in 1883. Over the years, researchers there identified additional features of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coeliac Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Coeliac Disease - Causes
The cause is presently presumed to be: Partly a genetic susceptibility to the illness. Together with an environmental agent, probably a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kawasaki Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Kawasaki Disease - Treatment
Children with Kawasaki disease are hospitalized and care is normally shared between pediatric cardiology and infectious disease specialis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crohn's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Crohn's Disease - Causes
Crohn's disease - Barrier problem and autoimmunity to the luminal flora. The efficacy of immunosuppression, as well as scanty reports o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cardiovascular Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Cardiovascular Disease - Prevention
Attempts to prevent cardiovascular disease take the form of modifying risk factors. Some, such as gender, age, and family history, cannot...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gaucher's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Gaucher's Disease - Diagnosis
In populations with high rates of carriage (Ashkenazi Jews and Norrbottnian Swedes), some family members of the index patient may already...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Minamata Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Minamata Disease - History
In May 1956, four patients from Minamata, Japan, a city on the west coast of the southern island of Kyushu, were admitted to the hospital...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Huntington's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Huntington's Disease - Diagnosis
Symptoms of Huntington's disease begin increasingly early the more glutamines a person carries within the repeating portion of his or her...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Addison's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Addison's Disease - Pathophysiology
Eighty to ninety percent of cases of Addison's disease are said to be due to autoantibodies directed against adrenal cells containing 21-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crohn's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Crohn's Disease - Epidemiology
The disease typically first appears in young adults in their late teens and twenties, although it is not unknown for symptoms to first ap...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crohn's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Crohn's Disease - Complications
Crohn's disease - Short-term. The bowel shows segmental "hose pipe" thickening and shows full thickness chronic inflammation, giant cel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Huntington's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Huntington's Disease - Symptoms
Symptoms of the disorder include loss of cognitive ability (thinking, speaking), changes in personality, jerking movements of the face an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lyme Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Lyme Disease - Prevention
The best prevention involves avoiding areas in which ticks are found and can reduce the probability of contracting Lyme disease. If such ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Addison's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Addison's Disease - Diagnosis
In suspected cases of Addison's disease, one needs to demonstrate that adrenal hormone levels are low after appropriate stimulation with ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coeliac Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Coeliac Disease - Causes
The cause is presently presumed to be: Partly a genetic susceptibility to the illness (identical twins do not have 100% concordance howe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Diseases Of Affluence: Encyclopedia Ii - Diseases Of Affluence - Communicable Vs. Non-communicable Diseases
Some of these illnesses are inter-related, for example obesity is thought to be a partial cause of many other illnesses. They are charact...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crohn's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Crohn's Disease - Treatment
Crohn's disease - Medication. Steroids are often necessary in initial stages and during flare-ups, although long-term steroid therapy ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lyme Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Lyme Disease - Diagnosis
The most reliable method of diagnosing Lyme disease is a clinical exam by an experienced practitioner. Supportive data by laboratory test...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crohn's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Crohn's Disease - Epidemiology
The disease typically first appears in young adults in their late teens and twenties, although it is not unknown for symptoms to first ap...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coeliac Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Coeliac Disease - Diagnosis
The condition is frequently misdiagnosed or overlooked as it can exhibit multiple symptoms and often the patient or medical staff may not...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crohn's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Crohn's Disease - Complications
Crohn's disease - Short-term. The bowel shows segmental "hose pipe" thickening and shows full thickness chronic inflammation, giant cel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Infectious Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Infectious Disease - Mortality From Infectious Diseases
The World Health Organization collects information on global deaths by International Classification of Disease (ICD) code categories. The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coeliac Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Coeliac Disease - Treatment
The only treatment is a life-long gluten-free diet. No medications are required, and none have proven useful; trials with immunosuppressi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Huntington's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Huntington's Disease - Pathology
Degeneration of the caudate and the putamen (striatum) can be found. There is also neuronal loss and astrogliosis, as well as loss of med...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crohn's Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Crohn's Disease - Treatment
Crohn's disease - Medication. Steroids are often necessary in initial stages and during flare-ups, although long-term steroid therapy ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chagas Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Chagas Disease - History
The disease was named after the Brazilian physician and infectologist Carlos Chagas, who first described it in 1909, but the disease was ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coeliac Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Coeliac Disease - Pathophysiology
Antibodies to the enzyme tissue transglutaminase (tTG) are found in an overwhelming majority of cases, and cross-react to gluten2. This h...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meaning Of Dream About Disease: Dream Dictionary - Disease , Diseased, Diseases, Sick, Sickness, Health, Inurable Disease, Inurable Diseases, Incurably Diseased
  Disease , Diseased, Diseases, Sick, Sickness, Health, Inurable Disease, Inurable Diseases, Incurably Diseased To dream that yo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coeliac Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Coeliac Disease - Pathophysiology
Antibodies to the enzyme tissue transglutaminase (tTG) are found in an overwhelming majority of cases, and cross-react to gluten2. This h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chagas Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Chagas Disease - Prevention
A reasonably effective vaccine was developed in Ribeirão Preto in the 1970s, using cellular and subcellular fractions of the parasite, b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Disease - Syndromes Illness And Disease
Medical usage sometimes distinguishes a disease, which has a known specific cause or causes (called its etiology), from a syndrome, which...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Disease - Syndromes, Illness And Disease
Medical usage sometimes distinguishes a disease, which has a known specific cause or causes (called its etiology), from a syndrome, which...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Disease: Encyclopedia Ii - Disease - Other Uses Of The Term
In biology, disease refers to any abnormal condition of an organism that impairs function. The term disease is often used metaphorically ...   » Read the article