chronic mountain sickness

A form of juvenile osteochondrosis of the spine.

Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy

(derogatory) The practice of widening the diagnostic boundaries of illnesses in order to expand the markets for treatments.

A condition of the cervical vertebrae that causes an unsteady, wobbling gait and weakness in dogs and horses.

Pendred syndrome

exanthema subitum

A rare neurodegenerative disease that causes progressive destruction of nerve cells in the brain. Symptoms include aphasia and dementia.

(medicine, pathology) A poorly understood disease of Africa, characterized by stunted growth and a nodding seizure when eating or feeling cold.

pyorrhea of a tooth socket; a purulent inflammation of the dental periosteum, producing the progressive necrosis of the alveoli and looseness of the teeth