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bonecrusher disease
(Encyclopedia)bonecrusher disease: see dengue fever. ...Bright's disease
(Encyclopedia)Bright's disease: see nephritis. ...Brill's disease
(Encyclopedia)Brill's disease: see typhus.venereal disease
(Encyclopedia)venereal disease vənērˈēəl [key]: see sexually transmitted disease. ...celiac disease
(Encyclopedia)celiac disease: see sprue.delusion
(Encyclopedia)delusion, false belief based upon a misinterpretation of reality. It is not, like a hallucination, a false sensory perception, or like an illusion, a distorted perception. Delusions vary in intensity,...memory, in psychology
(Encyclopedia)memory, in psychology, the storing of learned information, and the ability to recall that which has been stored. It has been hypothesized that three processes occur in remembering: perception and regi...Dutch elm disease
(Encyclopedia)Dutch elm disease: see diseases of plants; elm. ...congenital heart disease
(Encyclopedia)congenital heart disease, any defect in the heart present at birth. There is evidence that some congenital heart defects are inherited, but the cause of most cases is unknown. One known cause is infec...Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
(Encyclopedia)Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: see prion. ...Browse by Subject
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