lung sickness
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lung plague — n contagious pleuropneumonia of cattle called also lung sickness … Medical dictionary
SICKNESS — HEALTH STATUS Introduction There are several available yardsticks for measuring intergroup differences in health status: (1) lifetime longevity, i.e., average expectation of life in years (calculated at birth or other selected points in the age… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Decompression sickness — Caisson disease [decompression sickness] Classification and external resources Two United States Navy sailors prepare for training inside a decompression chamber … Wikipedia
black lung — Synonyms and related words: Asiatic flu, Hong Kong flu, Minamata disease, acute bronchitis, adenoiditis, altitude sickness, aluminosis, amygdalitis, anoxemia, anoxia, anoxic anoxia, anthracosilicosis, anthracosis, anthrax, asbestosis, asthma,… … Moby Thesaurus
Human lung — Infobox Anatomy Name = PAGENAME Latin = pulmo GraySubject = 240 GrayPage = 1093 Caption = Frontal view of lungs cut open Trachea branches into bronchi Caption2 = Precursor = System = Artery = Vein = Nerve = Lymph = MeshName = Lung MeshNumber =… … Wikipedia
African horse sickness — (AHS) is a highly infectious, and deadly disease. It commonly affects horses, mules, donkeys and zebras. It is caused by a virus of the genus Orbivirus belonging to the family Reoviridae. This disease can be caused by any of the nine serotypes of … Wikipedia
motion sickness — Synonyms and related words: Minamata disease, airsickness, altitude sickness, anoxemia, anoxia, anoxic anoxia, anthrax, black lung, caisson disease, car sickness, chilblain, decompression sickness, frostbite, immersion foot, itai, jet lag, lead… … Moby Thesaurus
radiation sickness — Synonyms and related words: Minamata disease, altitude sickness, anoxemia, anoxia, anoxic anoxia, anthrax, black lung, caisson disease, chilblain, decompression sickness, frostbite, immersion foot, itai, jet lag, lead poisoning, mercury poisoning … Moby Thesaurus
Nongqawuse — (right) with fellow prophetess, Nonkosi Nongqawuse (c. 1840s – 1898) was the Xhosa prophetess whose prophecies led to a millennialist movement that culminated in the Xhosa cattle killing crisis of 1856–1857, in what is now the Eastern Cape… … Wikipedia
William Guybon Atherstone — 27 May 1814 Nottingham, England 26 March 1898) Grahamstown, Cape Province, medical practitioner, naturalist and geologist, one of the pioneers of South African geology and a member of the Cape Parliament. He arrived in South Africa with his… … Wikipedia
