Disease
Morbus is the Latin word for illness . In the language of medicine , disease gives a name in connection with the name of the first person to describe a disease (see: Eponym ), whereby different names are often common for the same disease.
In the English- speaking world, the use of disease is uncommon, but the diseases are often named by the name of the person who first described them. Analogous to the construction in the German Graves' disease is example of Graves' disease in the English disease Graves' .
A.
- D'Acosta's disease = altitude sickness
- Adamantiades-Behçet's disease
- Addison's disease
- Attonitus disease = catalepsy
- Albers-Schönberg's disease = marble bone disease, osteopetrosis
- Alexander disease
- Alzheimer's disease
- Ahlbäck's disease
B.
- Baastrup's disease
- Bang's disease = brucellosis
- Barlow's disease = myxoid degeneration of the mitral valve
- Graves disease
- Bechterew's disease or Bechterew's disease = ankylosing spondylitis
- Behçet's disease
- Berger's disease = IgA nephritis
- Biermer's disease = pernicious anemia
- Bing-Horton's disease = cluster headache
- Binswanger's disease = subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy
- Bleuler's disease = schizophrenia
- Boeck's disease = sarcoid
- Bourneville-Pringle disease = tuberous sclerosis
- Bowen's disease = precancerous dermatosis
- Bruton's disease
C.
- Caducus disease = Latin for epilepsy , rarely used term for epilepsy
- Caeruleus disease = a clinical picture with cyanosis
- Castleman's disease
- Charcot's disease = now less common term for multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
- Coats disease
- Comitialis disease = epilepsy
- Conn's disease
- Cori disease = Cori disease
- Crohn's disease = Crohn's disease
- Crouzon's disease
- Curschmann-Steinert's disease = myotonic dystrophy type I
- Cushing's disease
- Czernin's disease = mastocytosis
D.
- Darier's disease
- Dercum's disease = lipomatosis dolorosa
- Down's disease
- Dubreuilh's disease = lentigo maligna
- Duchenne's disease = muscular dystrophy
- Duhring's disease = Dermatitis herpetiformis Duhring
- Dupuytren's disease = palmar fibromatosis
E.
F.
- Fabry disease
- Fahr's disease
- Farquhar's disease = hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
- Felty's disease = Felty's syndrome
- Fiedler's disease = idiopathic, non-infectious myocarditis
- Forbes disease = Cori disease
- Forestier's disease
- Fournier's disease
- Fröhlich's disease
G
- Gaucher's disease
- Gilbert 's disease = Meulengracht's disease
- Günther's disease
- Grover's disease = transitory acantholytic dermatosis , benign acantholytic dermatosis
H
- Haemolyticus neonatorum disease
- Neonator hemorrhagic disease
- Hailey-Hailey disease
- Hallopeau's disease
- Hansen's disease = leprosy
- Hashimoto's disease = Hashimoto's thyroiditis (autoimmune thyroiditis)
- Hers disease
- Herxheimer's disease = Akrodermatitis chronica atrophicans Herxheimer
- Hippel-Lindau disease
- Hirschsprung's disease
- Hodgkin's disease
- Horton's disease = giant cell arteritis
- Hunter's disease
- Huntington's disease = Huntington 's disease (hereditary St. Vitus dance)
J
- Jaffé-Lichtenstein's disease = fibrous dysplasia
K
- Kahler's disease = plasmacytoma = multiple myeloma
- Kienböck's disease = lunate malazia
- Kobold's disease
- Koch's disease = tuberculosis
- Krabbe's disease = globoid cell leukodystrophy
- Köhler's disease type I - IV (MT I-IV) = certain forms of aseptic bone necrosis
- Type I: Köhler-Albau's disease , necrosis of the tarsal bone
- Type II: Köhler-Freiberg's disease , necrosis of a metatarsal head
- K disease = disease invented by Giovanni Borromeo
L.
- Ledderhose's disease
- Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease = Perthes disease
- Leigh's disease
- Little's disease = infantile cerebral palsy
- Löffler's disease
M.
- Maßhoff's disease = mesenteric lymphadenitis
- McArdle's disease
- Meulengracht's disease = Gilbert's disease
- Meniere's disease
- Möller-Barlow's disease = scurvy
- Mondor's disease
- Morgagni's disease = Adams-Stokes syndrome
- Morquio's disease
N
O
- Ord's disease = Hashimoto's thyroiditis
- Ormond's disease = retroperitoneal fibrosis
- Osgood-Schlatter disease
- Osler's disease = Osler-Weber-Rendu's disease
- Ollier's disease = enchondromatosis
P
- Paget's disease
- Osteodystrophia deformans , a disease of the skeletal system
- Paget's carcinoma , a type of cancer
- Parkinson's disease = Parkinson's disease
- Perthes disease
- Peyronie's disease = induratio penis plastica
- Pfeiffer's disease = Pfeiffer glandular fever
- Pick's disease = Pick's disease
- Plummer's disease = autonomic adenoma
- Pompe disease
R.
- Raynaud's disease
- Recklinghausen's disease
- Refsum's disease
- Reiter's disease = reactive arthritis
- Ritter von Rittershain's disease, see Staphylogenic Lyell syndrome
- Roger's disease = small ventricular septal defect
S.
- Samter's disease
- Sandhoff's disease
- Schaumann-Besnier's disease = sarcoid
- Scheuermann's disease = Scheuermann's disease
- Schlatter's disease = Osgood-Schlatter's disease
- Simmonds disease = panhypopituitarism
- Sinding-Larsen-Johansson disease
- Stargardt's disease
- Still's disease = juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Sudeck's disease = complex regional pain syndrome
T
W.
- Waldenström's disease
- Wegener's disease = Wegener's granulomatosis
- Weil's disease
- Werlhof's disease = idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
- Whipple's disease
- Wilson disease
- Winiwarter-Buerger's disease = endangiitis obliterans
See also
Web links
Wiktionary: Morbus - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
