(medicine, neurology) A rare, progressive, fatal disease of the nervous system, characterized by dementia and loss of muscle control. It is a prion disease, apparently transmissible from animals to humans by eating infected tissue, as well as from tissue interchanges among humans (e.g. corneal transplants, blood transfusions).

Synonym of food poisoning

(medicine, US) Synonym of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

(medicine) A highly contagious and sometimes fatal viral disease that can affect animals with cloven hooves.

(phytopathology) A disease of elm trees caused by ascomycete fungi in the genus Ophiostoma and spread by bark beetles.

(neurology, pathology) Any of several neurodegenerative disorders that selectively affect motor neurons.

plural of motor neuron disease

(medicine) An hereditary disease, characterized by a tendency to hemorrhage, and caused by a defect in blood platelet activity.

plural of sexually transmitted disease

(medicine) The disease scurvy, especially in infants.