" disease "

[Noun]  | "dis*ease" | \ di-ˈzēz \

1: a condition of the living animal or plant body or of one of its parts that impairs normal functioning and is typically manifested by distinguishing signs and symptoms : sickness, malady

2: a harmful development (as in a social institution)

3: trouble

Origin: 14th century ;

 Middle English disese, from Anglo-French desease, desaise, from des- dis- + eise ease;

[Noun]  | "acute disease" 

1: a disease (such as bronchitis, gastroenteritis, or the flu) of rapid onset and relatively short duration

Origin: 1637 ;

[Noun]  | "Ad*di*son's disease" | \ ˈa-də-sənz- \

1: a destructive disease marked by deficient adrenocortical secretion and characterized by extreme weakness, loss of weight, low blood pressure, gastrointestinal disturbances, and brownish pigmentation of the skin and mucous membranes

Origin: circa 1856 ;

 After Thomas Addison †1860 English physician;

[Noun]  | "Alz*hei*mer's disease" | \ ˈälts-ˌhī-mərz- \

1: a degenerative brain disease of unknown cause that is the most common form of dementia, that usually starts in late middle age or in old age, that results in progressive memory loss, impaired thinking, disorientation, and changes in personality and mood, and that is marked histologically by the degeneration of brain neurons especially in the cerebral cortex and by the presence of neurofibrillary tangles and plaques containing beta-amyloid —abbreviation AD

Origin: 1911 ;

 Alois Alzheimer †1915 German physician;

[Noun]  | "Bang's disease" | \ ˈbaŋz- \

1: brucellosis; specifically : contagious abortion of cattle caused by a brucella (Brucella abortus)

Origin: 1920 ;

 Bernhard L. F. Bang †1932 Danish veterinarian;

[Noun]  | "Bright's disease" | \ ˈbrīts- \

1: any of several kidney diseases marked especially by albumin in the urine

Origin: 1831 ;

 Richard Bright †1858 English physician;

[Noun]  | "brittle bone disease" 

1: osteogenesis imperfecta

Origin: 1960 ;

[Noun]  | "caisson disease" 

1: decompression sickness

Origin: 1873 ;

[Noun]  | "Can*a*van disease" | \ ˈka-nə-ˌvan- \

1: a rare, usually fatal, demyelinating disease of infancy that is characterized by spongy degeneration of the brain caused by an enzyme deficiency and that typically affects individuals of eastern European Jewish ancestry

Origin: 1965 ;

 After Myrtelle May Canavan †1953 U.S. pathologist;

[Noun]  | "Cas*tle*man disease" | \ ˈka-səl-mən- \

1: a rare disease of the lymphatic system that is marked by nonmalignant overgrowth of lymphoid tissue and lymph node enlargement and that occurs either in a localized or a systemic form—called also angiofollicular lymph node hyperplasia, giant lymph node hyperplasia

Origin: 1978 ;

 After Benjamin Castleman †1982 U.S. pathologist, principal author of a description of the disease;

  * Note : The disease was described by Benjamin Castleman, Lalla Iverson, and V. Pardo Menendez in "Localized mediastinal lymph-node hyperplasia resembling thymoma," Cancer, vol. 9, issue 4 (July-August, 1956), pp. 822-30.;

[Noun]  | "disease" 

[Noun]  | "contagious disease"