单词 | x disease |
释义 | X diseasen. 1. Pathology (chiefly Australian). A disease now identified as Murray Valley encephalitis (see Murray Valley n.). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [noun] > disorders of brain > inflammation of brain > encephalitis > types of meningoencephalomyelitis1900 chronic fatigue1908 leucoencephalitis1909 sleeping sickness1918 X disease1918 sleepy sickness1922 western equine encephalitis1933 St. Louis encephalitis1934 Russian encephalitis1940 panencephalitis1950 Murray Valley encephalitis1951 Iceland disease1954 Murray Valley fever1955 myalgic encephalomyelitis1956 ME1982 1918 Med. Jrnl. Australia 6 Apr. 278/2 On 25th August, 1917, I published in the Journal an account of an epidemic at Broken Hill of what is now called the ‘X’ disease. 1951 Med. Jrnl. Australia 2 June 800/1 Our case differs from the classical picture of X disease..in the lack of cellular infiltration in the brain. 1964 E. H. Derrick in Queensland's Health Dec. 11/2 ‘X’ is a recognised term for an unknown quantity. But Australia already had an ‘X disease’, now known as Murray valley encephalitis. However, the rest of the alphabet was open. Query also signified the unknown. ‘Q (for query) fever’ it became... Many have wrongly assumed that the ‘Q’ stands for Queensland. 1983 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. I. v. 101/1 Murray Valley (formerly) Australia encephalitis. This disease was originally called Australian X disease. 2. Veterinary Medicine. = blue comb at blue adj. and n. Compounds 1d (disease). (Now known to be caused by a mycotoxin.) ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of birds > [noun] > disorders of poultry roup1551 squeck1577 gargil1614 roup1614 the gapes1799 garget1817 snifters1844 white comb1853 bumble foot1854 wry-tail1880 blackhead1894 bacillary white diarrhoea1909 limber-neck1910 (avian or fowl) leucosis complex1922 pullorum1929 perosis1931 fowl paralysis1932 scissor beak1934 blue comb1939 hexamitiasis1941 pullet disease1941 Marek's disease1947 new wheat disease1950 X disease1950 sour crop1951 fowl cholera- 1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. May 442/1 The condition of poultry known as pullet disease, blue-comb disease, new wheat disease, or X disease has been known in Great Britain and America for several years. 1961 New Scientist 17 Aug. 403/3 A consignment of groundnut meal from Brazil contained an agent toxic to young turkeys, which proved responsible for the death of some 100,000 birds from the hitherto mysterious X disease... The exact nature of the toxic principle has still not been found. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1918 |
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