Caisson disease

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• Caisson

  ·noun A chest to hold ammunition. II. Caisson ·noun A sunk panel of ceilings or soffits. III. Cais...

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• caisson

  , or caissoon An adopted term for a sort of float sunk to a required depth by letting water into i...

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• Disease

  ·noun Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet. II. Disease ·vt To deprive of ease; to...

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• Addison's disease

  ·- A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one tim...

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• Basedow's disease

  ·- A disease characterized by enlargement of the thyroid gland, prominence of the eyeballs, and inor...

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• Bright's disease

  ·- An affection of the kidneys, usually inflammatory in character, and distinguished by the occurren...

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• Contagious disease

  ·add. ·- A disease communicable by contact with a patient suffering from it, or with some secretion ...

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• Graves' disease

  ·- ·same·as Basedow's disease. ...

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• Hodgkin's disease

  ·- A morbid condition characterized by progressive anaemia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; ...

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• Infectious disease

  ·add. ·- Any disease caused by the entrance, growth, and multiplication of bacteria or protozoans in...

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• Jumping disease

  ·add. ·- A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Mai...

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• Loco disease

  ·add. ·- A chronic nervous affection of cattle, horses, and sheep, caused by eating the loco weed an...

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• Meniere's disease

  ·- A disease characterized by deafness and vertigo, resulting in incoordination of movement. It is s...

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• Pott's disease

  ·- Caries of the vertebrae, frequently resulting in curvature of the spine and paralysis of the lowe...

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• Thomsen's disease

  ·- An affection apparently congenital, consisting in tonic contraction and stiffness of the voluntar...

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• Weil's disease

  ·add. ·- An acute infectious febrile disease, resembling typhoid fever, with muscular pains, disturb...

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• french disease

  The venereal disease, said to have been imported from France. French gout; the same. He suffered by ...

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