Inflammation+of+the+heart
41infectious disease — Introduction in medicine, a process caused by a microorganism that impairs a person s health. An infection, by contrast, is the invasion of and replication in the body by any of various microbial agents including bacteria, viruses (virus),… …
42rheumatic fever — Pathol. a serious disease, associated with streptococcal infections, usually affecting children, characterized by fever, swelling and pain in the joints, sore throat, and cardiac involvement. [1775 85] * * * Generalized disease caused by certain… …
43Chlamydia pneumoniae — Taxobox color = lightgrey name = Chlamydia pneumoniae regnum = Bacteria phylum = Chlamydiae ordo = Chlamydiales familia = Chlamydiaceae genus = Chlamydia species = C. pneumoniae Chlamydia pneumoniae is a species of chlamydiae bacteria that… …
44scleroderma — /sklear euh derr meuh, skler /, n. Pathol. a disease in which connective tissue anywhere in the body becomes hardened and rigid. [1865 70; SCLERO + DERMA] * * * or progressive systemic sclerosis Chronic disease that hardens the skin and fixes it… …
45rheumatic fever — n an acute often recurrent disease occurring chiefly in children and young adults and characterized by fever, inflammation, pain, and swelling in and around the joints, inflammatory involvement of the pericardium and valves of the heart, and… …
46endocarditis — endocarditic /en doh kahr dit ik/, adj. /en doh kahr duy tis/, n. Pathol. inflammation of the endocardium. [1830 40; < NL; see ENDO , CARDITIS] * * * Inflammation of the heart lining (endocardium), in association with a noninfectious disease (e.g …
47pancarditis — noun inflammation of the entire heart (the epicardium and the myocardium and the endocardium) • Hypernyms: ↑carditis * * * |pan+ noun Etymology: New Latin, from pan + carditis : general inflammation of the heart; specifically …
48Carditis — is the inflammation of the heart [DorlandsDict|two/000017437|carditis] or its surroundings.It is usually studied and treated by specifying it as: *Pericarditis or the inflammation of the pericardium *Myocarditis or the inflammation of the heart… …
49rheumatic fever — acute rheumatism a disease affecting mainly children and young adults that arises as a delayed complication of infection of the upper respiratory tract with haemolytic streptococci (see Streptococcus). The main features are fever, arthritis… …
50Diphtheria — An acute infectious disease that typically strikes the upper respiratory tract including the throat. It is caused by infection with the bacteria Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Symptoms include sore throat and mild fever at first. As the disease… …
