| 单词 | infectious disease |
| 释义 | infectious disease (once / 5400 pages) n WORD FAMILY infectious disease: infectious diseases USAGE EXAMPLES“I thought about doing a fellowship in infectious diseases.” Washington Times(Dec 26, 2016) Thomas Monath, NewLink’s chief scientific officer for infectious diseases, says the vaccine’s success should mean the world will never see another widespread Ebola epidemic. Washington Times(Dec 24, 2016) Much of that increase is thanks to falling death rates among women and young children, especially from infectious diseases. Slate(Dec 22, 2016) n a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact Hypo|Hyper AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome a serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles Gibraltar fever, Malta fever, Mediterranean fever, Rock fever, brucellosis, undulant feverinfectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals or infected meat or milk products; characterized by fever and headache Asiatic cholera, Indian cholera, cholera, epidemic choleraan acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food breakbone fever, dandy fever, dengue, dengue feveran infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints dysenteryan infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea epidemic diseaseany infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people hepatitisinflammation of the liver caused by a virus or a toxin herpesviral diseases causing eruptions of the skin or mucous membrane glandular fever, infectious mononucleosis, kissing disease, mono, mononucleosisan acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing Hansen's disease, leprosychronic granulomatous communicable disease occurring in tropical and subtropical regions; characterized by inflamed nodules beneath the skin and wasting of body parts; caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae listeria meningitis, listeriosisan infectious disease of animals and humans (especially newborn or immunosuppressed persons) caused by the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes; in sheep and cattle the infection frequently involves the central nervous system and causes various neurological symptoms meningitisinfectious disease characterized by inflammation of the meninges (the tissues that surround the brain or spinal cord) usually caused by a bacterial infection; symptoms include headache and stiff neck and fever and nausea epidemic parotitis, mumpsan acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands paratyphoid, paratyphoid feverany of a variety of infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever acute anterior poliomyelitis, infantile paralysis, polio, poliomyelitisan acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord ratbite fevereither of two infectious diseases transmitted to humans by the bite of a rat or mouse; characterized by fever and headache and nausea and skin eruptions rickettsial disease, rickettsiosisinfectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria recurrent fever, relapsing fevermarked by recurring high fever and transmitted by the bite of infected lice or ticks; characterized by episodes of high fever and chills and headache and muscle pain and nausea that recur every week or ten days for several months rheumatic fevera severe disease chiefly of children and characterized by painful inflammation of the joints and frequently damage to the heart valves miliary fever, sweating sicknessepidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality T.B., TB, tuberculosisinfection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages) enteric fever, typhoid, typhoid feverserious infection marked by intestinal inflammation and ulceration; caused by Salmonella typhosa ingested with food or water pertussis, whooping cougha disease of the respiratory mucous membrane frambesia, framboesia, yawsan infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions black vomit, yellow fever, yellow jackcaused by a flavivirus transmitted by a mosquito pest, pestilence, plagueany epidemic disease with a high death rate choriomeningitisa cerebral meningitis with cellular infiltration of the meninges viral hepatitishepatitis caused by a virus delta hepatitis, hepatitis deltaa severe form of hepatitis herpes simplexan infection caused by the herpes simplex virus; affects the skin and nervous system; produces small temporary (but sometimes painful) blisters on the skin and mucous membranes herpes zoster, shingles, zostereruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia tuberculoid leprosyleprosy characterized by tumors in the skin and cutaneous nerves lepromatous leprosya very serious form of leprosy characterized by lesions that spread over much of the body and affecting many systems of the body brain fever, cerebrospinal fever, cerebrospinal meningitis, epidemic meningitismeningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal pest, pestilence, pestis, plaguea serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal Pott's diseaseTB of the spine with destruction of vertebrae resulting in curvature of the spine typhus, typhus feverrickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever spotted feverany of several severe febrile diseases characterized by skin rashes or spots on the skin Q feveran acute disease resembling influenza rickettsialpoxmild infectious rickettsial disease caused by a bacterium of the genus Rickettsia transmitted to humans by the bite a mite that lives on rodents; characterized by chills and fever and headache and skin lesions that resemble chickenpox trench fevermarked by pain in muscles and joints and transmitted by lice scrub typhus, tsutsugamushi diseasetransmitted by larval mites and widespread in Asia miliary tuberculosisacute tuberculosis characterized by the appearance of tiny tubercles on one or more organs of the body (presumably resulting from tubercle bacilli being spread in the bloodstream) consumption, phthisis, pulmonary tuberculosis, wasting disease, white plagueinvolving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body king's evil, scrofula, strumaa form of tuberculosis characterized by swellings of the lymphatic glands amebic dysentery, amoebic dysenteryinflammation of the intestines caused by Endamoeba histolytica; usually acquired by ingesting food or water contaminated with feces; characterized by severe diarrhea bacillary dysentery, shigellosisan acute infection of the intestine by shigella bacteria; characterized by diarrhea and fever and abdominal pains Haverhill feverthe form of ratbite fever occurring in the United States lupus vulgaristuberculosis of the skin; appears first on the face and heals slowly leaving deep scars Bornholm disease, diaphragmatic pleurisy, epidemic myalgia, epidemic pleurodynia, myosisan acute infectious disease occurring in epidemic form and featuring paroxysms of pain (usually in the chest) cerebromeningitis, encephalomeningitis, meningoencephalitisinflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges leptomeningitisinflammation of the leptomeninges sodoku, spirillum feverthe form of ratbite fever occurring in the Far East communicable disease a disease that can be communicated from one person to another |
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