infectious+disease
121Disease, pelvic inflammatory (PID) — Despite its seeming lack of gender, this term is applied to women only. PID refers exclusively to ascending infection of the female upper genital tract (the female structures above the cervix). PID is the most common and serious complication of… …
122infectious avian bronchitis — an acute, highly contagious, respiratory disease of chickens, caused by a coronavirus and characterized by tracheal rales, coughing, sneezing, nasal discharge, and a drop in egg production …
123infectious ectromelia — a disease of mice caused by a poxvirus and characterized by gangrene and often loss of one or more of the feet and sometimes of other external parts, and by necrotic areas in the liver, spleen, and other organs; called also mousepox …
124infectious enterotoxemia of sheep — pulpy kidney disease in sheep …
125infectious canine hepatitis — a highly contagious type of hepatitis in canines, caused by an adenovirus; symptoms may be mild to severe and range from fever, vomiting, and abdominal pain to convulsions, hemorrhage, and death. Called also canine virus h., h. contagiosa canis,… …
126infectious tenosynovitis — a disease of chickens and turkeys caused by a reovirus; the tendons of the legs become infected and inflamed and often rupture …
127infectious anemia — noun : a serious often fatal virus disease of horses and mules marked by intermittent fever, depression, weakness, jaundice, and mucosal hemorrhages and frequently by anemia called also swamp fever …
128infectious necrotic hepatitis — noun : black disease …