(medicine) An illness caused by a specific infectious agent (bacterium, virus, fungus, protozoa, prion etc.), that results from transmission of that agent from an infected person, animal, or reservoir to a susceptible host.

(pathology, slang) Hypersensitivity to ultraviolet radiation, causing pus-filled rashes, caused by furanocoumarins in lime juice. Furanocoumarins damage DNA when activated by UV.

plural of prion disease

transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

A disease of the white grubs of Japanese beetles, caused by a soil-dwelling bacterium, Paenibacillus popilliae. / Synonym of grasserie (“disease of silkworms”)

An inflammation, often rheumatic, of the navicular bone in horses.

Synonym of Fahr's syndrome

scrub typhus when transmitted by Trombicula akamushi

plural of imperial disease

A disease that is spread from person to person, with no animal reservoir.