Disease

(dis-cz'). A condition of the body marked by inharmonioui action of one or more of the various organs. o 'ing to abnormal condition or structural change. A Table of Diseases named after men who have described or have especially studied them is appended. D., Acute, a disease marked by rapid onset and course. D., Bad, a synonym of syphilis. D., Bleeders', synonym of Hemophilia. D., Chronic, one that is slow in its course. D., Constitutional, one in which a system of organs or the whole body is involved. D., Coarse, the macroscopic organic lesions in a disease. D., Cretinoid. See Myxedema. D. of Ditmarsch, a form of endemic syphilis that was seen in Ditmarsch from 1762-1842. D., Fatigue. See Fatigue. D., Feigned, the wilful simulation of disease or injury, through malice or for the purpose of attaining a desired end. D., a centrally localized disease of the nervous system as distinguished from peripherally localized affections. D., Functional, abnormality of function without discoverable organic lesion. D., Grouse. See Grouse Disease. D., Idiopathic, one that exists by itself without any connection with another disorder; one of which the cause is unknown. D., Intercurrent, a disease occurring during the progre of another of which it is independent. D., Knife-grinder's, chronic catarrhal bronchitis met with in knife-grinders. D., Pearl worker's, a recurrent bone-inflammation, with enormous hypertrophy of the bone, seen in workers in pearl-dust. D., Saint Gothard, a synonym of Ankylostomiasis or Dochmiasis, q. v. D., Septic, one arising from the putrefactive fermentation of some foreign substance within the body. Synonym of Yellow Fever. D., Specific, one caused by the introduction of a specific virus or poison within the body; also a synonym of Syphilis. D., Subacute, one more protracted and ie active than an acute disease. D., Sub chronic, one le protracted than a chronic disease, but more protracted than an acute disease. D., Symptomatic, a disease caused by or connected with another ailment of the body. The opposite of idiopathic disease. D., Zymotic, a term used to include the whole cla of germ-diseases, or those arising from the introduction and multiplication of some living germ within the body. Hsengagement (dis-en-gaf -ment).