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occupational disease

(Encyclopedia)occupational disease, illness incurred because of the conditions or environment of employment. Unlike with accidents, some time usually elapses between exposure to the cause and development of symptom...

autoimmune disease

(Encyclopedia)autoimmune disease, any of a number of abnormal conditions caused when the body produces antibodies to its own substances. In rheumatoid arthritis, a group of antibody molecules called collectively RF...

bonecrusher disease

(Encyclopedia)bonecrusher disease: see dengue fever. ...

celiac disease

(Encyclopedia)celiac disease: see sprue.

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. ...

catecholamine

(Encyclopedia)catecholamine kătˌəkôlˈəmēn [key], any of several compounds occurring naturally in the body that serve as hormones or as neurotransmitters in the sympathetic nervous system. The catecholamines ...

fetal tissue implant

(Encyclopedia)fetal tissue implant or fetal cell therapy, implantation of tissue from a fetus into a patient. In experimental procedures, fetal brain tissue has been implanted in the brains of patients with Parkins...

paralysis

(Encyclopedia)paralysis or palsy pôlˈzē [key], complete loss or impairment of the ability to use voluntary muscles, usually as the result of a disorder of the nervous system. The nervous tissue that is injured m...