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Bright's disease
(Encyclopedia)Bright's disease: see nephritis. ...Brill's disease
(Encyclopedia)Brill's disease: see typhus.celiac disease
(Encyclopedia)celiac disease: see sprue.Graves' disease
(Encyclopedia)Graves' disease: see thyroid gland. ...bonecrusher disease
(Encyclopedia)bonecrusher disease: see dengue fever. ...Cushing's disease
(Encyclopedia)Cushing's disease: see Cushing, Harvey Williams. ...Masters disease
(Encyclopedia)Masters disease: see southern tick-associated rash illness. ...Tay-Sachs disease
(Encyclopedia)Tay-Sachs disease tāˈ-săksˈ [key], rare hereditary disease caused by a genetic mutation that leaves the body unable to produce an enzyme necessary for fat metabolism in nerve cells, producing cent...sickle cell disease
(Encyclopedia)sickle cell disease or sickle cell anemia, inherited disorder of the blood in which the oxygen-carrying hemoglobin pigment in erythrocytes (red blood cells) is abnormal. This “hemoglobin-S” crysta...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...Browse by Subject
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